Chuck Smith wrote:
We are starting a different school that runs by having the students create what they use and consume.
This reminds me of the choice Victorian co-operators made to select education as one of the key Rochdale Principles.
We are using the advancement in energy to take it to the next level which will bring us to an opportunity for learning programing.
You are probably already aware that the Smalltalk community has been heavily involved in programming education, for example: Squeak Etoys Scratch and Build Your Own Blocks Alice (also built in Java) Bots Inc (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/botsinc)
Also, you may be interested in following these new UK-based communities: http://codingforkids.org/ http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/
Hope that helps, David