as a employee of a school district in California, maintenance not teaching I could not agree with you more. our state budget for education is bigger than some states whole budget yet the kids are failing at a faster rate than ever before. one of the biggest problems here is the fact that we can't weed out the bad kids and teachers. we are forced to educate kids that are criminal, repeat offenders that should be tossed out of school and teachers who are just pulling a paycheck. now I know there are a few teachers here and I'm not trying to demean any of them. I think yall are payed way to little and have to deal with stuff you shouldn't have to but you know that bad teachers are hard to get rid of. there needs to be discipline leveled on these kids, smack them with a piece of oak, thats what I got when I did something bad at school and get rid of the teachers who time after time have kids who have low grades.