>     My concept is to place the Mac executable on the servers in the schools. There the Mac exec would use ODBC to talk to SQL, which then would go over the wires to the district server, (where the DBFs would be) and do its data manipulation there.
>Is this the right way to fly or am I totally off the beam? I'm sure I'm not the only bird in the world with a mixed environment using VFP.

Have you considered using Windows Terminal Server using The Citrix Mac ICA programs for the MACs?

This way you can stay in VFP5 and don't need to build a bridge. Of course you will need a nice machine to use as the TS.

BOb