Had they learned, had we got that percentage of kids reading at grade level up higher to the point where they got to high school they were competent readers they might have stayed with it. Most of them are pretty good readers now. I go sometimes now to prisons and primarily what you'll find there are a lot of relatively young African-American kids, and most of whom didn't read at all in high school or almost none, weren't good readers now they read like crazy because it's the only thing they can do. And I really want people to get that in their heads because that's what's happening. And when I go and talk to the legislature and when I go in and talk to big groups of librarians or teachers I'll always say I'm here to save lives.
It's a win/win/win for the kids, it's a win for the teachers, it's a win for the state. So I've been working with them and we went to the state legislature in April and we met with the head of the senate and several senators and the house and they gave us two counties in Florida and they said you don't have to get 80s but if you get good numbers you get numbers in the 60s we will take that program across the state, which would be spectacular.
The University of Florida has been working on a program for five years up in the Gainesville area, not Gainesville itself because there are too many professor's kids in the town, but outside and they have it up into the 80s. The best in the country is Massachusetts at 62 percent so nobody should be standing up and going look at our stay we're 62 percent. James Patterson: There's a program that I'm involved with at the University of Florida, right now Florida the percentage of kids reading at grade level is 43 percent.
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