we already fund raise and write grants all year to fund our visual arts pranl. mr. gars yeah, my community is very poor. i would be ashamed to ask our working class parents to support the teachers on top of everything else they do. i ask why it wouldn't be in the district's pest with interests to ep had the program that brings success to the mission. it seems to make financial sense to maintain a succeeding school rather than spend hundreds of thousands in other schools. >> you could also -- you could also submit anything you have written. and hand it off to anyone else as well. [applause] >> thank you. i'm john. i'm the resource specialist at mass canny elementary. thank you for hearing us. as miss gibson said, there's nothing left to cut. it is going to impact the reading recovery program, dropping it by .4 which will directly effect four to six direct students and more stupets they work with in groups. this is not a cost effective solution for the distribute. this will actually -- i have three different study that is look at the effectiveness of reading reefer, t