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I am expecting a commercial upgrade to the public school system of private, high tech schools, that will give such a superior education to children compared to public schools, that there will be no contest.

Such a system would use interactive multimedia to teach the lower levels of the educational pyramid, much faster, more thoroughly, and more comprehensively than human teachers could do. For their part, the human teachers provide higher pyramid levels of education than computers can provide.

(I like to interject at this point that the comparison is just between public and this type of private schooling. Religious and home schooling is so inherently different that comparison is not practical.)

Such high tech schools would have as their priority to not waste student time. So multimedia instruction would be multiple discipline. At the same time a student is learning US history, for example, he would also be learning the lesson in the German language, as well as English, he would be learning new material as well as reviewing older material, being evaluated on his lessons, and corrected when in error.

While reading about a period in US history, he could also hear the music of the period, as well as seeing the architecture, art, and clothing of the time. Even how he is taught history would be different, such as teaching from the present to the past, instead of how it is done traditionally.

The narrator and multimedia teacher would be a full scale production, and able to digress into a subject as far as the student wanted to go via an educational Intranet. Students would learn at their own pace, and would not miss any blocks of instruction, progressing only when they had mastered it.

Classes would no longer be taught to mediocrity, as the teacher would not have to slow down for the slow students, or ignore the needs of the fast students. And being private, there is no need to permit federal interference in the learning process.