While many of you may feel that vouchers are a terrific idea and be behind charter schools, let me suggest some changes that are likely coming when the governor's plans are shoved through the legislature due in large measure to the next newest carpetbagger "Bloomburg" and his cartel of "private corporation(s)" that are already poised to slip in and get the state contracts to run public education in the state. As the playing field in high school athletics exists presently, certain private schools in the state are forced to play in certain classifications because larger classification schools can not compete with them, much less the classifications they are in. Case and point, John Curtis playing Evangel basically every year for the 2A football championship and Riverside - whose coach recruits players from Europe (yes, for high school basketball) who played John Curtis for the 2A Boys state basketball championship - Riverside lost. Actually, this is to such a degree that in the 2011-12 school year, John Curtis will likely sweep every championship in 2A. The LHSAA has attempted to correct this problem by allowing each team to move up one catagory to play. That is only going to result in either John Curtis being the 3A Champ or 2A Champ or vice versa for Evangel and others. In other words don't expect both to move up so they won't have to play each other for a championship - again. So it has been in Louisiana for many years. Now under the new legislation that has passed the House Ed. Committee, these institutions are not only going to be able to recruit but be paid by the state through vouchers to go out into Louisiana and bring in athletes to additionally bolster their programs. Yet as it stands now, these institutions will not be forced to prove that the education they are providing these students is to a higher standard - though it could be - than what the student would receive within the Louisiana Public School he or she had formally attended. In other words - as it stands today, March 29, 2012 - no accountability system will be imposed for these schools or they can get a waiver from them. Get ready for a landscape in high school sports in the State of Louisiana where the private, parochial, and charter schools are to an even greater degree, the only ones competing for state championships in Louisiana.