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That's, that's not net savings, right? It doesn't account for any additional expenses you might have with transportation or what other, other outcomes come with moving students. But if that's— or if people are understanding through those surveys that they are receiving what, what school closures actually do for the benefit of kids And I— and if they don't right now in those surveys, um, and maybe then the question is, can we include that? Or maybe that's just part of this right-sizing committee, is, is better education about what school closures actually mean and what the benefits are. And I think there's just this heavy focus that school closures mean closing the deficit, and that is not what it means.

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