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I wouldn't say all tendencies, but certainly sufficient.

I would say enough to overcome.

That's right. He gave them a sense that someone believed that they could, that they weren't just expendable.

I have a two prong question revolving around that. Does this lead you to believe, on the one hand, if effective programs can be devised to motivate these school kids there will not be the drop out rate, there will not be the degree of teenage pregnancies on the part if both males and females? But the flipside of the coin here, pardon my metaphor, is that does the effectiveness of his offer suggest that those Great Society programs affecting education just weren't all that good?

Well, they weren't that concentrated.

Of course, this is highly concentrated, if you want to use the word input wasn't.

That's right. This, by the way, is part of my testimony yesterday that serious commitment to planning and implementing high quality and high standards of education could have positive results. The fact is, as I said to you before, and to the judge, is that there hasn't been that kind of serious commitment. There has been a prevailing belief that the schools are doing the best they can for