School Daze

After three years of planning, the Microsoft Corp.-designed “School of the Future” opened its doors Thursday, a gleaming white modern facility looking out of place amid rows of ramshackle homes in a working-class West Philadelphia neighborhood.

Hm. Think I need to read Jennifer Government again. :)

When I was in grade school, I went to one of the new-fangled “open concept” schools. Sliding walls, supplies carried from class to class in “tote trays”, a sunken media center in the middle of the building, open on all sides. It was a pretty good school, I guess.