You bring up some great points, trevelyan. Let me address them. Blackboard is very much university-centric. They've won the war as far as universities are co

You bring up some great points, trevelyan. Let me address them. Blackboard is very much university-centric. They've won the war as far as universities are concerned. However, universities generally do the job of teaching very well. You also don't hear of fatal university shootings often (If ever? I haven't looked.) I'm in it to improve the lives and education of high school students. If I manage to better just one student's life, then I'll consider it mission accomplished. High schools are very much open game. They're open game because they can't typically afford the huge sums of money that universities can. I plan to dominate the low end by creating a product that's simple, efficient, and inexpensive; something that every teacher would want. I'm not competing with Blackboard. I'm sidestepping them. I agree that teachers have methods that they've employed for years to teach students. But part of that is exactly the problem. When something is done exactly the same for years on end, it gets stale. A teacher would have -fun- with my product, exploring other's ideas and communities. I plan to make them happy. They may be reluctant to use my product, but I plan to be with my two cofounders, on foot, visiting local high schools as soon as I have a feature set that's useful, and spending time with individual teachers to show them how they might benefit from it. Then it's up to the teachers whether or not they'll use Classbug, but if I've done my job well, they'll most certainly want to. Shawn