The numbers seem very strange to me…

I know two SD county K-6 school teachers at different schools and both have informed me of massive SD county school lay-offs.

From this article it looks like somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 just three weeks ago.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/21/hundreds-of-teachers-get-layoff-notices/

So, how can the education sector show any growth at all?

I just hate gov’t economic indicator numbers! It’s like they use some kind of “special” math the rest of us can’t understand, but they think we’ll just buy into it blindly…