presentations, pt.1 {perfect school}

ok so.. I unfortunately ( I think) arrived too late to class to hear the first presentation, though I'm told by Erica that it wasn't all just Jeremy talking and that it was actually pretty good.. so I'm going to believe Erica and say that the presentation was awesome! So good job to Erica, Kelsey and Jeremy. The next presentation was.. interesting.. Rob did a very good job with the creepy "perfectly calm" voice.. and Darcy and Lee were good with the 'dancing'. I definately agree that our lives would be much easier if we got to have an extra hour of sleep but I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon. And even if it did we would gradually change our concept of 'late enough to go to bed'.. For me, If I look at the clock and it says 12:00 I know I have to go to bed, but if we got our extra hour of sleep in the morning, My concept of bedtime would eventually shift to be whenever the clock says 1:00. Then I'm not really getting anything extra out of it except for loosing an hour of sunlight in my day. Maybe they should set grade-school back an hour and make them wake up earlier so that by the time they reach high school they'll be used to it??
And the breakfast period is also a good idea if we could think of a way to make sure kids came to it instead of sleeping in the extra half hour or so..
I also like the idea of smaller class sizes.. I enjoy knowing everyone in my Gifted class.. especially when I go from Gifted and Spanish (which technically has 6 students) into my 32 person calculus class and realize I don't know most of the people in my class. If you asked my to name off all 32 students I could tell you.. maybe 20 of their names.. I know.. thats sad.. I'm really bad with names and its not really a social class but still..
Anyways.. this is getting long so I'm going to wrap it up.. Good work on the interpretive dance Rob, Lee, Darcy and Connor. I'll post tomorrow on the technology thing.. probably homeschooling.. maybe.. :)