From:      <103135.2035@compuserve.com>
To:        REED HUNDT, FCC <kidstv@fcc.gov>
Date:      11/1/95 5:54pm
Subject:   Ideas

Saw your interview by Mitchelle Quinn, S.F. Chronicle.
Your ideas are fine, but not workable.  You cannot depend on
broadcasters to fund an institute that will be effectively
managed, let alone independently managed.
Better idea:  Get together with US. Office of Education before it
is swept away by Congress, to use Federal funds to set up a
National Blue Ribbon Committee of Teachers/Media experts, say
6-10 teachers at each Grade Level, to draw up lists of
recommended TV shows and educational programs, and keep it
CURRENT.  The second half of their job is to get local schools
(not districts) to develop a system whereby each parent can have
a keyed educational channel, with a menu for selecting the most
appropriate (for grade and age) media programs.  When these
become interactive a few years down the pike, it will offer
exciting educational opporltunities for kids who are home sick,
as well as kids whose parents are working, and it can be a
requirement of the teacher to recover the log each month, whereby
the viewing schedules of these kids can be reviewed with the kids
and their parents.
     Many more ideas come to the fore when one seriously tries to
work through the details of changing the habits and priorities of
young kids.  And of course, if these habits and priorities
continue to reflect Adult television fare, God help us all.