Kids have fun learning by doing, whether designing a skyscraper or a city and whether it s a success or a disaster. So far as I know, the company hasn t produced Sim School District yet. And I m not about to do that much computer programming. Microsoft s is called Excel. There are others.
Spreadsheets do many things.
They were designed for manipulating financial data. They re a computerized version of the yellow sheets formerly filled in by bookkeepers with green eyeshades. Insert the new number and everything on the spreadsheet changes. We could do that with the District s budget. Expansion in music, athletics, foreign language.