and what they say is that this new measure in massachusetts requires the school district to base it decisions on, quote, merit and ability which sounds good in theory, but they say those terms are not defined, and that winds up giving too much discretion to the administrators. yeah. and, you know, we really want to see that student achievement through a value-ed mod o el be at least 50% of the evaluation. we actually want to make the evaluation system more concrete so it is less arbitrary. so, you know, this we ve had, we had a fellow that joined our association last year, was the teacher of the year for california, identified as the best teacher in the state of california, got let go under lifo. megyn: people don t know what that is. last-in, first-out, i apologize. the last teacher in is the first one out when it comes to layoffs no matter how good they are. you can have the best teacher in the world that s got five years