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Our law makers in Washington should be ashamed of themselves! From the President on down they send their kids to private schools which actually have the money to pay for librarians (many private school libraries have librarians at each level, and some times more than one at the secondary level) as well as new books, computers and other resources. They make speeches about the dire state of our public education system today (especially how we graduate kids who can't read), yet they eliminate what is for many schools the only source of funding for library materials, and they consider librarians to be "support staff". As main posting noted, how are kids supposed to excel in math, science and technology if they can't read or do research?!