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Two part plan:
1.The creation of a site that provides amazing virtual education/jobtraining across several high volume platforms as an additional tool for students, teachers, and everyone, and 2. A re-design of k-12 in how it is structurally organized and funded.
1. Need an Elon Musk type visionary to create a virtual education/jobtraing site on STEROIDS with amazing courses at the price of an itune($.99) or of a subscription to the entire site at the price of Netflix ($9.99/M), on a myriad of high volume platforms such as Xbox, Amazon, Apple TV, etc, easily available in the comfort of the home on the bigscreen. The site would have an ipreschool, ikindargarden, ielementary, ijuniorhigh, ihighschool, iuniversity, and ijobtraining. Amazing courses that are fun, addictive, and come in several different learning styles created by teams with top talent in the academic, video game, and entertainment industries with budgets like popular video games.
The market for the ischool at the magnitude envisioned is huge. In the U.S. there are approximately 55 million k-12 students, 1.8 million homeschoolers, 20 million college students, 23 million households on foodstamps, and 2.3 million people in prison. All of these groups will want subscriptions to such a site . Government will want to subsidize the $.99/downloaded course or $9.99/M subscription for many of them. That is over $12 billion a year potential market in the U.S. alone not counting adult learning/jobtraining outside the listed demographics and a global marketabove. Let's say the ischool brings in 10 billion a year, that is enough for the site to create/buy 1000 courses a year with an average budget of 10 million per course.
2. k-12
State/local government strictly fund k-12 education throuh vouchers where parents can send their kids to any school, public, private, homeschool, that they want. The government gets completely out of creating curriculum and teaching. Solely fund through vouchers, and also finance and maintain physical facilities of public schools.
The only influence on curriculum the government will have is requiring a basic structure on the public schools as follows: 1/Parents of the students will choose from among themselves something like 12 volunteer non paid board of directors. 2/These directors will choose from a myriad of private educational companies a company to run the school, hired on a yearly contract. This company will then provide a CEO to run the school. 3/The public high school will be set up with something like eight degree programs that students can freely choose to major and minor in along with a required standard base curriculum and gifted program. Degree programs such as Science/engineering, IT/Programming/Graphic Arts, Trade school on steroids, Extreme first responders, Business/entrepreneurship, Writing/English, Music/Arts, Bachelor of Arts. 4/The CEO with help from his home company and the board of directors of the school will choose from a myriad of educational companies one to implement and teach each of the six degree programs on a yearly contract. For example to run the school the board of directors may choose Khan Academy from a myriad of educational companies that specialize in the running of schools. Then the leadership of the school may choose from many options a MIT educational company for the science/engineering program, a Cal Tech company for the IT/graphic arts program, Elon Musk's Ad Astra "to the Stars" for the gifted program, etc. The virtual ischool will be an important resource for teachers, students, and the educational companies hired to implement and teach each degree program.
1.The creation of a site that provides amazing virtual education/jobtraining across several high volume platforms as an additional tool for students, teachers, and everyone, and 2. A re-design of k-12 in how it is structurally organized and funded.
1. Need an Elon Musk type visionary to create a virtual education/jobtraing site on STEROIDS with amazing courses at the price of an itune($.99) or of a subscription to the entire site at the price of Netflix ($9.99/M), on a myriad of high volume platforms such as Xbox, Amazon, Apple TV, etc, easily available in the comfort of the home on the bigscreen. The site would have an ipreschool, ikindargarden, ielementary, ijuniorhigh, ihighschool, iuniversity, and ijobtraining. Amazing courses that are fun, addictive, and come in several different learning styles created by teams with top talent in the academic, video game, and entertainment industries with budgets like popular video games.
The market for the ischool at the magnitude envisioned is huge. In the U.S. there are approximately 55 million k-12 students, 1.8 million homeschoolers, 20 million college students, 23 million households on foodstamps, and 2.3 million people in prison. All of these groups will want subscriptions to such a site . Government will want to subsidize the $.99/downloaded course or $9.99/M subscription for many of them. That is over $12 billion a year potential market in the U.S. alone not counting adult learning/jobtraining outside the listed demographics and a global marketabove. Let's say the ischool brings in 10 billion a year, that is enough for the site to create/buy 1000 courses a year with an average budget of 10 million per course.
2. k-12
State/local government strictly fund k-12 education throuh vouchers where parents can send their kids to any school, public, private, homeschool, that they want. The government gets completely out of creating curriculum and teaching. Solely fund through vouchers, and also finance and maintain physical facilities of public schools.
The only influence on curriculum the government will have is requiring a basic structure on the public schools as follows: 1/Parents of the students will choose from among themselves something like 12 volunteer non paid board of directors. 2/These directors will choose from a myriad of private educational companies a company to run the school, hired on a yearly contract. This company will then provide a CEO to run the school. 3/The public high school will be set up with something like eight degree programs that students can freely choose to major and minor in along with a required standard base curriculum and gifted program. Degree programs such as Science/engineering, IT/Programming/Graphic Arts, Trade school on steroids, Extreme first responders, Business/entrepreneurship, Writing/English, Music/Arts, Bachelor of Arts. 4/The CEO with help from his home company and the board of directors of the school will choose from a myriad of educational companies one to implement and teach each of the six degree programs on a yearly contract. For example to run the school the board of directors may choose Khan Academy from a myriad of educational companies that specialize in the running of schools. Then the leadership of the school may choose from many options a MIT educational company for the science/engineering program, a Cal Tech company for the IT/graphic arts program, Elon Musk's Ad Astra "to the Stars" for the gifted program, etc. The virtual ischool will be an important resource for teachers, students, and the educational companies hired to implement and teach each degree program.
