physical plan of the kansas city, missouri, schools hoping that improving the buildings and getting things up to date would improve the test scores. that did not happen. test scores continued to decline. the school system is on provisional accreditation. somebody told me the other day, we re not talking about making all the kids in the kansas city school district rocket scientists. we re just trying to get them proficient at the grades they re supposed to be at. they ve got a great deal of academic problems. what they re hoping is by closing all these schools they can save some money, they ll get class sizes that are going to be in the mid-20s, which is within an acceptable range in the state of missouri, and they re going to see if a smaller district can educate kids better than this largest district that has not done it literally for generations. micheal, you ve been doing this for a long time. you ve seen a lot of stuff similar to this happen, if you will. i ll let you go, but if
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