I don't agree with the School Voucher issue as I have no children or grandchildren in either public or private school systems and yet I am taxed by both the State and the local School District. We have Public Timberlands which are set aside as School Blocks with the revenues from these lands supposed to go to a General Fund to be divided up among the schools for Capital Improvements and Operations, yet we can't harvest timber from these lands because it is detrimential to some Owls well being, so who gets the bill for the revenues not recieved from these timber sales. You and I in the form of increased property taxes. Now you carry this a step farther you give dole out School Tax Revenues in ther Form of School Vouchers that is then monies taken from the School's Fiscal Budget for operating cost. Now who ends up paying the shortfall in their Budget? It's you and I in the form of higher Property Taxes and those of us who are on a fixed income can't afford it.

You asked where would yoou start if you were going to scale down. Here's a couple of radical Ideas: 1) instead of laying off some of the indians, how about getting rid of some of the Chiefs. 2) get rid of some the deadwood that are Tenured who are not doing their Job. 3) actually teach the children the basics, it's crimminal when children come out of the school system and can't even balance a check book or write a common business letter and yet the Local School District calls them "Honor Students." 4) Spend special Levy Monies and General Fund Monies for what they were appropriated for not window dressing and /or pheasability (sp) studies to give some self professed expert a job, who in most cases don't know their rear end from a hole in a ground. Let them go out and find a job instead of living off the Taxpayer.

This applies to all forms of Government not just the schools