Do Brighter Walls Make Brighter Students?

I dunno if I'd like to go to a school with lime green and bright turquoise walls, but I can see where this is coming from. Certainly painting the walls won't make the kids do their homework if they don't want to, but I'm sure a cheerful, cleaner looking school might make them feel more like learning!

I am constantly surprised today at how new schools look like prisons: narrow little windows way up on the walls, the kids constantly bombarded with artificial light. I went to an elementary school where one wall of each classroom was almost all windows, and 1929-and-earlier junior high and high school buildings also with a lot of windows. The incandescent lighting in many classrooms was a supplement only. While the walls weren't flourescent colors, they were light and interesting. I would assume the schools being painted here may be of that era, but not well kept up. I can't imagine being boxed up in one of these modern schools with the institutional paint jobs.

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 2:11:00 PM

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