John Spatz who is the Executive Director of the Nebraska Association of School Boards gave us an informative talk about all the different aspects of responsibilities of the Nebraska Association of School Boards (NASB). He also showed us a lot of data about why Nebraska schools and as a result the future Nebraska workforce will be facing increasingly large problems with not having the necessary well-adjusted manpower to man the businesses in our state. The data he showed supported the statement that Gen Z is less healthy, less happy, and less cognitively developed than their parents were at the same age. Also for the 1st time in history of standardized cognitive measurement, children are consistently scoring lower on many key measures of cognitive development. He led us to question our ability to “cut” our way out of the problems we are facing and advocated we consider alternative ways to approach the budgetary problems we face as a state.