<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Let's see how eager the schools, or the parents would be to embrace vouchers if they had to do what the public system is mandated to do by our government! The pubic system, and teachers are an easy target to bash, but like piano work, the problems and solutions are not alway crystal clear. Ron Koval - not a teacher, but close enough to the trenches to see the carnage. </BLOCKQUOTE> Ron, my man, You have hit this particular nail on the head, exactly.  I grew up in a family of teachers, almost grew up in the school itself.  My father, who lived to a ripe old age of 96, never wavered from his belief that the system was exactly as you have described it, and that private schools could not, and would not do the job that the public schools must by law take on.  Teachers and pianotechs are truly appreciated only by the few--would that teachers had the right to walk away from untunable students. Stan Ryberg Barrington IL</HTML>