i AGREe, we have 4 kids and the schools out here suck. It also depends where you live. They want to take away sports and other activties that keep our children from getting into trouble. Why doesn't the gov and the head of the school district take a pay cut. They make 6 figures a year. While they role in the dough our children suffer. I don't think the teacher union will let it happen, not only that they have a contract with the school district. Our children are the future, no wounder why we have the highest drop out rate, we don't pay our teachers enough, so why should they give a crap.