Middle schools should focus on perfecting the skills acquired in K-5. Inexpensive Macintosh or windows based personal computers giving children access to applications on the Internet such as For Kids Only may be sufficient for K-5 learners. A similar arrangement is necessary for the middle schools. The upper two grades of secondary education is where most of the cost will be incurred. Even in the secondary schools, project -based learning can be approached incrementally and made available to serious students who will benefit from distance learning and visual interaction with foreign countries.
Serious students come from all walks of life.
The best path for turning out serious students is ensuring that ordinary or average students receive serious motivation. The major cost for training at the secondary level can be circumvented by paying teachers, during the summer months, to take classes in computer literacy and computer teaching skills. Keep in mind, all teachers would not have to attend. Only the teachers that would teach other teachers in the school environment. Evaluation of which courses are productive would yield surprising results.