Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to respect the people who are the experts in this whole area. We have a school program and resource committee. It is made up of educators. It is made up of representatives from all the DEAs. Additionally, we have a process of input from the teachers along the way.

The Territorial Teachers' Association was very concerned with how to address this issue. They are the ones that made the recommendation to us on how to address the issue of more support in the classrooms. We followed that, Mr. Chairman.

We have brought down the PTR, which is very measurable, so it has to have an affect in the classroom, Mr. Chairman. We are now almost investing an extra $12 million per year over when we started. That is in a period of two-and-a-half years. It has to have an affect, Mr. Chairman. It is obvious. Statistically, we are showing it.

Is that solving a particular problem in a particular school? There is no doubt there have been improvements in that school as well. When we consider the PTR is an overall ratio and it takes in the classroom teachers, support teachers, vice principals and principals, what we have to remember in addition to that is that we have other people in that classroom, many other people. There are specialists, language specialists, or classroom assistants. They are not counted in the PTR. When we consider, and if we do a comparison between our jurisdiction and other jurisdictions, I know that nationally, we are coming down to the national rate. We are still above some but we are coming down. We need to continue that effort.

The question Ms. Lee has is can we take the money that we are putting into the specialist area, the classroom assistants, the language specialists and so forth, I think the thrust has been to do it on both levels, both on the PTR and the student support area. The next question in this whole thing is can we look at class sizes? We do because we work in partnership, from the ground up, with our jurisdictions to provide advice in that whole area and support. Thank you.