guest: for a lot of reasons. partly i have three children and i was appalled by the books they had in school. i was also a newspaper reporter and i was asked to cover a meeting i was writing for the virginian pilot so i was asked to cover a meeting in richmond and the state school board looked at textbooks. they actually looked at english textbooks and the textbook most used in virginia at the time have romeo and juliet, a very good choice. but the publisher changed shakespeare s words. wherever shakespeare i know, it is astonishing difficult or arcane word, the publisher changed without noting the changes had been made and this is the kind of thing going on in textbooks so teachers were teaching shakespeare, children were with reading shakespeare without knowing they were actually doing that so the state school board exploded, called a meeting and asked publishers to send representatives with the idea of improving, this is about 20 years ago improving school books an