[FITZ]

My father once pointed out that a lot of this is because they won't let the drop-outs drop out so they keep bringing the schools down, they should be out on the streets where they belong, or out working menial jobs like people who didn't want to stay in school in the past had to do.

[ventana]

Are you kidding, they'd never get rid of them: those kids are the cash cows...special needs kids get all the bucks,and support a burgeoning specialized educational bureaucracy, imho. V's wife.