* Better cafeteria food with real ingredients
* No school busses - nearly every child mentioned the bullying of bus rides as one of the reasons they hated school
* More choice in their assignments or projects
* Replace grades with feedback and portfolios (like we did in our class)
* Staggered start and end times so that the school would "feel smaller"
* More alternative sports in addition to the traditional ones
* Off-campus community service once a week
* Job-shadowing for one month of the year
* A monthly educational field trip
* iPads, netbooks or laptops in classes - they even brought up some interesting ways to raise money for these devices
* More freedom in terms of leaving to use the restroom, eating a snack or getting a drink of water
* More electives - while most of them agreed that we need math, they suggested that maybe they could choose pre-geometry or pre-algebra or in reading, they could have reading classes geared toward certain topics
* A school garden