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Students within its system up until the 12th grade. students were split into two platoons, one study more traditional, core, academic related subjects, while the other platoon were taking classes in art, physical education, and industrial art courses specifically equipped facilities. while this aspect of the gary plan did not endure, many components of this concept have survived. >> when you went to high school, how many. did you have? >> well, there were four, then there were seven. >> generally seven is the number of periods. that was started at the gary school. the other thing that was star...

Of those art courses, music courses and things that become electives in these economies. also fewer extracurricular activities. take a look at what it does to our entire country. if that's not bad enough for the schools, look at this. the effect on the country. weaker public schools. that always leads to higher unemployment when you have peaker public schools. it's harder to keep people in schools. it's rough for the president's education goals. finally, it widens that achievement gap between those families that can pay for their young people to go to private schools, right, and the other youn...

Turning into a big thing is the schools supply deduction. something you don't hear a ton about but teachers use it because increasingly teachers have out of pocket expenses. the house bill gets rid of it entirely doubles it to $500. it's unclear what's going to happen to this. >> the reason teachers have to buy these school supplies is because state and local budgets have been cut. school boards year in and year out were seeing budgets get cut. so they don't have art courses, music courses so teachers have to buy the supplies. >> and we've got medical expenses. this is another big one. you don...