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[quote=Anonymous][quote]To return to that farm analogy above, that's actually a pretty good analogy. If the livestock is underweight, it's the farmer's responsibility to look at the whole picture, rather than either blaming the scale and throwing it away or rushing to just fire the farmhands.[b] Do you have enough feed and is it the right kind? Do you have enough farmhands? [/b]Lots more questions need to be asked by the farmer, rather than just firing and punishing. If the farmer isn't doing that, it's a sign that he's incompetent and there needs to be accountability.[/quote]

And if you don't, what are the weighers going to do about it?  Who is going to pay for the food and extra farmhands?  We have an aging population and the funds are going into Social Security, Medicare, etc.  Do the feds have some extra money sloshing around?  We know this is a problem, but just testing is not going to solve it.  Just pointing it out and saying, hey teachers, get rid of your bad admins and hey, admins get some more help and hey school board tax your locals more is not working.  What will happen if the feds force more unreimbursed mandates on the states is that the states will start to say take your scales away.  They are not helping us.  [/quote]

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