good morning. thanks for having me. explain how putting these folks into the court system is wrong and what kind of system would you want to replace this thing? well, you know, the states that are doing this well, the states that have really focused on reforming how they handle status offenses like truancy use court as a last resort. that s not what we re seeing in texas and certainly not what we re seeing in dallas county. dallas county is prosecuting more than 36,000 of these cases every year. so the sheer volume is overwhelming. there are kids getting swept up into the system that in no way resemble what most of us would commonly see as a truant student. what do you think as your best hope to take something asma jort support or hasn t been stopped through the political system, what s the best hook to get the courts to stop it? we re really interested in working with the department of justice, with the county, with