Reading, writing and video games
Students will build on gaming skills at new Dayton high school, say administrators.
By Scott Elliott

Staff Writer

DAYTON — The city district's newest high school wants kids who are willing to spend hours staring at a video screen, working on their skills, until they master the challenges presented to them.

And some of the district's academic stragglers already have made such a commitment, spending hours seeking electronic Super Bowl titles, imaginary ill-gotten riches or fantastic conquests over video villains.

Capitalizing on youthful passion for video games, school leaders hope to keep more kids in school by offering the chance to conceive, design, build — and sell — their own video game.

"That's what they love," said David White, the school's chief academic officer. "That's the hook."

The Dayton Technology Design High School will enroll about 100 students, with about 80 in the "virtual game" track, requiring a three-year commitment and culminating in the completion, marketing and possibly sale of a student-created educational video game.

"When we first started talking about the video game, people laughed at us," Superintendent Percy Mack said. "But they laughed at the Wright brothers, too."

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Interesting idea, though I doubt it can do well, none of the games coming from well known companies, but high school kids.

Interesting. I'm not a child anymore..I'd go. ;_;