. -- intro expective. the director said we're looking at our math. we want to beef up our math scores. i can really appreciate that in the school. i have spoken since to parents of c.a.t. and also i've known students from c.a.t. and i know a ninth grader who has chosen to go into c.a.t. and i think also all of them, the reason that they chose c.a.t. was that it was such a tight community that it has a proven record of success of graduating everyone ready for college which quite frankly is a goal that we have in our district too. so i just want to say that i am in favor of renewing this charter and i want to thank you for offering this opportunity to some of our students on project-based learning. a critical eye also on -- in your -- presentation of -- just because when i heard that dissertation that the student gave it was also looking at it through a very critical but constructive perception of the subject that she was presenting and i thought that was a great preparation for college. >> so the one question that i have, i want to go lack to what the