News reports confirm the obvious

That being the number of Oregon children in state-funded Special Education Programs that now stands at 13% and continues to grow with presently exceeding 80,000 students.

What I don't see mentioned is that many of these Special Ed children are being schooled year-round which compounds the costs to taxpayers and feeds our greedy school systems.

Now, lets lump all the Special Ed Kids in with the Spanish Language students and toss in the No Child Left Behind participants and you have a population that staggers the imagination and drains the taxpayers wallets.

I am reminded of the horrendous waste every weekday as I watch outside my office window when one after another Short Bus (all with dark tinted windows) pull up to a neighboring day-care and either collect or deliver Special Education Students one-at-time. One bus, one Driver and one Student each and the school is only six blocks away.

Its time for taxpayers to look beyond the Smokey Bus Windows as they will find they often conceal an Empty Bus that is wasting our hard earned money.