developing online school curriculum. Since the existing school model can't figure out how to educate in this modern environment, maybe some innovative Linux users can help. My perspective is shaped over a long lifetime. During the Sputnik scare the best students were given every opportunity less well funded school systems could provide. As schools devolved into zookeepers and adolescent bone crushing sports sponsors, academics collapsed. Trying to get teachers to teach computer programming on the Window 9X platform met absolute resistance while my kids were in high school. But as someone who once studied advanced science, I see great teaching resources broadcast on PBS. Even a current broadcast commercial channel called Quest is a great teacher. We can't abandon children, even if our contemptible politicians have.