Poonte - I think that's a start! And the reason i said only the SLC is from what i have heard a lot of students do make it up to that level and they've made it that far and just cause they bomb one exam all those years goes down the drain!! Tisa - yeah but you can't really put every student in a school like Budhanilkantha school!! that just wouldn't be possible! and what about the rest of the childern you help? what do you do with them? Tisa are you trying to say that those students are worthless? see so it does make sense to say that - Out of 100 children you or your group help that way, my sense is that maybe 5 to 10 of them will go on to complete SLC. and here: do you think a student going for 1-10 years in a school is disadvantaged than a kid who goes to apprentice in a profession like carpentary,electrician,restaurant? Provoking some more thoughts. see i think that here, it depends on individual cases because we are all born with different genes and how we're brought up does play in role to how sucessful each student that does go to 1-10 years in school becomes, whereas some might just be better off in different professions!! It's not that it's bad but it just how it is kind of i guess! :S