In this article a teacher is quoted as saying, "We have too little time, too little funding, too little available energy." Cry me a river! This from someone who works nine months a year, puts in less than eight hour days, and is paid as though he is working a full year. There are people in the real world laboring hard for less wage who would gladly trade places. Why is it that the advocates of public education incessantly harp for more funding? We already have the highest per pupil expenditure in the nation. Time and time again it has been demonstrated that there is no correlation between per pupil spending and student achievement. If there were a correlation ASD students would not have such dismal proficiency results in math and English. Admittedly, those poor proficiency results have many reasons, some beyond the control of the ASD, but bigger school budgets and higher teacher pay will not change a thing except higher taxes.