Ray: Ahem. Hi. Uh, thank you. All right. Wow. Uh, I was up all night goin' over the material, and, uh... Well, I just got a few things to say. You know, when I was a kid, I always thought that we had too much homework. And, um, since I hated all the homework, I started to hate learning. In fact, what I learned to do more than anything else was to avoid the work. I'm sorry to say I still try to avoid it whenever I can. Just ask my wife. Uh... But, you know, it seems to me like the kids today, they've got 10 times the homework that we had. You know? And I don't want my daughter to hate learning. I want her to be curious and thoughtful and get excited about new ideas. And most of all, and I think this is what we want for all our kids, I want her to be happy. I mean, I think there's homework that's important and everything, and then I think there's overload. I mean, are we piling it on? We're so worried about the kids won't be competitive and our kids won't have a future, that we're takin' away their present. Anyway, so, you know, maybe we can just keep that in mind. 'Cause isn't that the kind of school that we want our children to be at? I mean in. I mean of. I mean a part of. I mean, isn't that... Isn't that the kind of school that we want our children to be a part of? In.
Board Member: [to teacher] And you wanted to cut down on the English homework.