8 Changes in 8 Years!

Looking  down the road ahead of us these are the changes we'd like to see...

Taxis and churches have made more changes in recent years than the classroom but according to these 4th graders education might not be too far behind.

When asked to predict what changes they would like to see before they graduated in 2024 this is what they agreed would make them happy...

#1. Jerald would like to see schools do away with desks!  His alternative would be a recliner with a writing surface that u could pull up on the side. 

#2. Everyone was quick to vote for "No Homework!"  Kids today like to have time for sports and family activities and don't want more schoolwork they said.

#3. Bree suggested taking down the walls between classrooms. Just in case we wanted more room or wanted to work with other kids sometimes.

#4. No written tests, no fill in the blanks!

I'm not sure who suggested this first, but everyone yelled their approval! When they were asked how we would get grades, they came up with lots of ways...make iMovies, do fun projects, build models. Austin even thinks that by 2024 we will have hand held brain scanners that will read brains to know how much you know!!

#5. Catherine and Kellan suggested that we have flexible start times, because some of us like to sleep in and can think better earlier or later.

#6. Shelby thought it might help keep lots of students calm by having tempered glass floors in the hallway, that would let you see through to an aquarium down below us!

#7. Food was a popular topic! Since we already have iPads on our desks, why not make your personal lunch choice yourself on your iPad. And, someone suggested that technology of the future would allow you to smell the pictures! Some of the boys thought that if you were too busy to go to the cafeteria, robots would deliver to your classroom!

8. "Responsibility talks" are always hot topics in school and at home, but Ashley who is our hermit crab caretaker wanted to take it a step further. "We want our future classrooms to have real live dogs and cats," she said. "They could live in our classrooms and run down our hallways and play with us at recess," someone else added. We would be responsible for them every day.  What would be better than that for our future schools!?!