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Mr. Huff, for me, I weighed the value of the language changes and their impact over the long term on teaching and learning and that outweighed for me the 3/3/3. In the end, the arbitrator awarded a retro piece too, which just increased the cost so a rejection could possibly have actually ended up costing more. (I admit that there is a healthy does of hindsight there). As far as getting teacher numbers in line with students, there's no 'pure' ratio for that as there are variables that may necessitate more or less teachers, notably the % of IEP students a district has. But, using rough numbers off the top of my head, I think that over the last 10-12 years we've had an approximate 20% reduction in students and approximately a 12-15% reduction in teachers.