marquerite? >> good morning. so we know that the reality for many districts -- let me see if i can get this going here. okay, he is telling me to wait zoologists give you my preview then. [inaudible] the reality for many districts is that school districts are facing the budget cuts. we party heard about that. and so what you have are a whole lot of people showing up for work for a school district or advocacy groups or at school board meetings or in state offices or county offices, etc. etc. and being forced to spend a lot of money allowing a lot of time staring at dollar figures. and these may or may not be accounting or financial wizards, but they suddenly got to be spending a lot of time making decisions on where to make cuts. so what i've done in this chapter is to suggest one tool that will help people wrap their heads around all these dollar figures and that is to break it down to the level of household finance come is something that we all know. and by that i mean per unit cost. so what i've done here is gi