I'm still trying to figure this out. The school doesn't appear to have last year's budget anywhere on the net, either.

The problems are, nobody works on the weekends, and people who respond to me never get back before deadline, and when they do, it's with something like, "We hire top talent to implement best practices."

Back when I did investigative reporting, schools across the state were claiming a 2% dropout rate. It was nonsense. I told somebody at the state DPI so, because I had walked down a street and in one hour interviewed more dropouts than that. Nobody could explain the maths. Then, just before deadline, I realized what they were doing. they were taking the number of people dropping out in the top four grades (9-12) and dividing it by the population of thirteen grades; thus cutting it in a third.

My first job out of college, I was offered to teach an extra course for $1000 for the entire year. The administrators assured me they had carefully done the maths and they were correct. Then, I had another boss who, if I worked 4 hours and 59 minutes would pay me for 4.59 hours. Maths are scary. Why should I challenge somebody's self-esteem? If they think they can fly when they jump off a building, PC says I should not hurt their tiny feelings by discussing reality.

I let it ride unless somebody wants to pretend they can't do math to eat up my Moody Blues concert reserves.

I just looked over at The EVO! She looks so passetix. She's staring me with a, "Why did you do that to me, Weswee! look." What have I done? It's what I get for playing along with the boss' game of, "Leslee doesn't need any sleep."