It's about bringing gifted students and teachers together over long distances. On the road to tomorrow's schools, everyone runs into roadblocks. Not many plow through them as successfully as Barbara Grohe. No one can argue that a plan for purchasing hardware in education must be in place for a successful site implementation. No educational institution approaches this decision-making process without employing certain purchasing criteria.
Access is just the beginning.
The possible uses after that are unending. This was a project that everyone told me could not happen, we didn't have the money, we were not positioned to do it, it was not the right time, we had all these other problems, we were not that far advanced in technology, and in a year and a half we had it done. Many questions and pending issues may not be resolved for years to come. And, with any new program, there always will be growing pains. The Virtual High School project is about using technology to create new ways of structuring and communicating traditional and multimedia content.