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To: JohnM who wrote (15236)	3/27/2006 11:23:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541977

I was puzzled from the outset but kept offering explanations. You never addressed my question. You didn't seem interested in my question. You seemed interested in repeating your assertions or repeating the premise of the issue as though I didn't understand the issue. That happens a lot. I find it interesting. I don't know if it's because you don't read/aren't interested in my question or don't have an answer for it. I continue to observe the phenomenon. Perhaps at some point I will figure it out. then there are,as you maintain, obviously no increased fiscal costs...the dollars to teach it have to come from other programs. If there are no increased costs, then why do you have to fund those costs from other programs? Do you not see the logical disconnect there? I accept E's explanation that there really are increased costs because we're substituting remedial classes for regular classes and remedial classes are necessarily smaller than regular classes and require teacher aides so the cost per student class goes up. That was key information that I did not have so my premise that all student class hours were fungible was apparently incorrect. Simple answer to a simple question but a lot of teeth had to be pulled in the process. Your teeth, however, remain intact within your clenched jaw. I gather you don't consider that a loss. Of course I consider it a loss. I believe that I said so. But off point. What I was needed needed was the fiscal dots connected between teaching slow kids math rather than geography and cutting other programs for regular kids.