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Class, and obviously it's a big issue in the state. it's hard to avoid it if you watch tv in wisconsin. they're concerned. students have asked me in the class, mr. kittel will we lose advanced placement classes? are we going to lose extracurriculars? i tell them the possibility is very, very real. there will be real impact on students. obvious obviously, if if they take 20 staff members away, class sizes will be increased. that means less attempt for reading programs in the low grades, low grades if there's fewer people to do that. that's a direct consequence. i'm a secondary teacher in the hi...

Generation possibly -- maybe not, are a little more gullible than other generations? >> no. actually, i think they are probably brighter and more informed generally. our population of students came from economically challenged school districts in south carolina and connecticut. out of 1,200 seventh graders, we looked at the top 50 online readers from that population, of that population, 88% of them believed the site and reported it as reliable or very reliable, and as you said, some of them when we told them it was bogus insisted it was reliable. but the problem here is that we don't have thes...

And toledo and columbus, all over saying they want to help, what can they do? we have something in the country called the corporation for national community service and they helped in katrina and helped in inner city programs and junior highs and reading programs and after-school programs. they help at food banks. they help with transportation for senior citizens. there's all kinds of things they can do, and they can help us mobilize volunteers in florida and louisiana and -- and all points in the gulf where there are problems. i mean, people -- people's lives have been changed so dramatically...

That there's an awful lot of americans that we hear from, people in from mansfield, ohio and toledo and columbus, all over saying they want to help, what can they do? we have something in the country called the corporation for national community service and they helped in katrina and helped in inner city programs and junior highs and reading programs and after-school programs. they help at food banks. they help with transportation for senior citizens. there's all kinds of things they can do, and they can help us mobilize volunteers in florida and louisiana and -- and all points in the gulf whe...