>>> kent at structural-wood.com 06/21/01 09:54AM >>> >Oh please - budget increases seem to largely go to more administrators, more >'special services' (grief counselors?) 'Special Services' is _the_ growth industry within education, largely supported by federal and state mandates (it is Special Education, "self-contained" classrooms, Speech, serving the EBD (emotionally/behaviorally distrubed) and lower functioning children) . I think the reason we have such turmoil in our state legislature today is that some of our representatives see a need to pay for the services they have put on the back of education, and some didn't want those services mixed into education in the first place. I do agree that this discussion belongs elsewhere. Not even remotely linux connected.