Segregation is now standard operating procedure in the neighborhood high schools of Rockford. Look at _our_ local demographics. See a difference? The multicultural schools of Immokalee and Lely High not only have most of our "neighborhood segregation" already accomplished, but also the community's scorn. It's pretty easy to see the history of sneers just in the NDN. So that segregation job is already done. The NCLB (and FCAT) will be thrown out with their "inventor," Mr. Bush. Scores will no longer distinguish which schools are dropout factories or which are nationally outstanding. People will come to understand that the whole system was bogus before it began. The budget will be balanced on the backs of ESE and AP students and their teachers. We'll just dump them out of their wheelchairs and hope it's not captured on camera. Then our community, especially our Support Our Troops groups, will rejoice that a "U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, West Point graduate and tae kwon do black belt who told the Rockford Register Star three years ago 'I like to fight' hasn't been afraid to do so." Hopefully IHS and LHS will either become troop-producing factories or else crumble, fall, and disappear into the new sanitary landfills in Mexico and Haiti. All the nay-sayers will move elsewhere, and we'll all be _so_ smug. Superintendent Thompson will be buried in one of Naples' more expensive cemeteries with a grand mausoleum proclaiming in letters carved in durable marble: The Savior. Is that what's in your crystal ball? The triumph of the witches! There is another way. _________ We teachers are "concerned," too. Already the personnel who are currently working with these ESE children are being told that their jobs will not exist next year. Most of them are highly skilled and irreplaceable. Our gifted counselors have also been told that their jobs are over at the end of the year. All of these people work very hard every day in ways most of the public has no appreciation for. When these "jobs" are loaded onto others, already overloaded, we are heading for a frightening crisis. What we are planning to do is just as vile as the actions of Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones at the Orient Road Jail. Who's got his hands on the handles of the wheelchairs? Another compassionate conservative. What about the top kids? They can take care of themselves and shouldn't dictate the schedule for the rest of the school? There is no easy cheap solution as we have been lead to believe. The solution is to use the contingency fund of $11 million to balance the budget and keep things the way they are. No schedule change; no reduction of teachers; no mandatory 30-member classes. This cut-crazy criminality of the Three-Year Consolidation Plan is creating a dire emergency that fully justifies using the contingency fund.