mr. gundry, the importance, if you will. describe the importance of such an opportunity for those in this area. john: yeah, a lot of people don't know what the county office of education is, but we're really here to help many of the neediest kids and families in the county. and we saw, because we know that there are almost between 5,000 and 6,000 students, young people, who have dropped out of high school, who are not working or in the military, who really are sitting home with very few options. so, we saw this as an opportunity to step in and do something about this problem, and reengage as many of those young people as we can in order to give them an opportunity to be successful in school and in career. damian: i mean, we always talk about we have to do something about the dropout rate. this is doing something about that dropout rate and taking care of those folks. john: right, we're actually recovering kids who dropped out of our k-12 system, and many of them have been out of the system for a while, because we take young