Grand Island uses support staff to keep an eye on students in the halls. So does Lackawanna. It's much less expensive than using teachers, who are then free to do what they are supposed to do - teach. Holland Central has a computerized music composition course. There's a keyboard at each work station attached to a computer.
Students can write music.
They can practice, and the computer tells them if they are off pitch. You hear plenty of schools talking about wanting a community library, open to the public, within the school library. Holland has done it. The library includes a children's section as well as fully stocked shelves of general-interest books and lots of computers for everyone to use. PDA policy .