It's the same old story: saving money. Whose pockets do we take it out of? Ms. Hayes' subterfuge is to blame the "elite" high school students for dictating to the rest of the students. She and her boss stand for justice and equality, etc. Not true. The real facts are that less education is less education: loading teachers up with another set of 30 students each; vacating 80 high school teaching positions; reducing graduation credit requirements from 32 to 24; not to mention making the whole community as angry as it was two years ago (over the same issue). It's dirty pool to get the teachers mad at each other--elementary teachers jealous over high school teachers' schedules, etc. It's dirty pool to stir up the community into factions that claim moral superiority over each other. You can fool all the people some of the time. If the government needs money, the easiest pockets to pick are those of us who can least afford to lose a penny. There's no reason other than community dissension that Collier County cannot raise enough money and political clout to make our schools the best in the nation. Some administrators love getting the tigers to chase each other round and round the tree. They can pick our pockets while we're busy and then they get to go home and eat all the pancakes. We should be smart enough to avoid having our pockets picked.