It's a very intriguing idea. Too bad it's so far away from us (50 miles or so). My kids have been commuting only 15 miles one way through traffic to school for two years, and it's a big drag. I can't even imagine putting them on an hour-long one-way train ride to San Francisco. It's too bad, because it really does sound like a potentially fabulous school.
I find it very interesting that they decided to locate the school in San Francisco, rather than down in Silicon Valley. I can't help but wonder if they've restricted their pool of potential students due to 1) geography (water on 3 sides of a small city), and 2) the extreme difficulties of getting into and out of San Francisco. I'd also expect that the concentration of mathy types in this area is much higher down here in the valley, where we're very much in need of new private high schools.
