mr. stein i hear you loud and clear that our bus drivers are taking a double hit, with the furloughs and think it is a travesty and crime to our students that we're so underfunded and with the budget, our state budget, depending on the state budge wet are -- we are forced to do this and must do this in order to keep things like class size low, keep vital services during the school day and also employ our teachers and the rest of the district staff. it is with a very heavy heart we do this. if we had the money, i believe we should give transportation to everybody but that isn't the reality today. and it probably will not be the reality for many years. the superintendent opened up with the statement abousuperint with the statement about state budget. it is very dismal. we're doing the best that we can here. but we are -- we are committed to protecting the education of students during the school day and so, we are forced to -- to eliminate some of our transportation gradually. we know it will have