Well Janie, I hope you sent the ex-boss some flowers. People like that are rare. I'm not sure where you live but in my town the only men who wear white suits are gangsters.

This sounds like another example of privatization. They are doing it with social services and now they want to do it with education. In Canada, they even want to do it with health care. Why? Its cost effective in the short term.

In the long term, the costs are enormous when you take into consideration the level of professionalism, the integrity of the system and the availability of services. Its easier to make these changes to services for the poor and the mentally challenged because they aren't as able to stick up for themselves. Its disgusting the way the people in need are walked on and then discarded like so much garbage.