I think it is due to the fact that the parents are going through the layoffs themselves and are having to settle for short-term contract work, not because of what they read.
14 posted on 06/07/2006 10:14:12 AM PDT by DonaldC
That, and the media . . . which has spent the last six years or so telling us we are doomed. And our vaunted educational system. Don't get me started on that fustercluck.
16 posted on 06/07/2006 10:18:49 AM PDT by 1rudeboy