An age-old problem with middle and high school has been a lack of relevant, engaging, and exciting electives.  Because of budget and staffing limitations, most schools simply offer electives that members of their staff happen to be good at.  It is simply impossible that hundreds of kids can be satisfied with just one or two potential electives, and Nextbooks has set out to fix this problem.

Imagine offering your students a list of dozens of varying electives from a menu of courses, and then designating one period in the day as a general "elective period." With a teacher monitoring the kids in a computer lab, each student can be taking a different online elective, from "Programming" and "Street Math," to "Reptiles & Amphibians" or "Construction."  With choice, and engaging video-based online courses, complaints about limited electives will vanish.