Basketball Court

The above ground basketball court in Ralston is one of the greatest ideas for this town that this community has ever come up with. It is a basketball court on top of the school that students use during recess and physical education class. There is of course a fence around it so the children can’t fall off the roof and there must always be an adult up there to monitor the students. This basketball court has helped extremely energetic students get their energy out so that they can focus in class. This makes it much easier for teachers to keep the kids’ attention in a world where social media is destroying our ability to stay focused.

It is worth mentioning that the court has also had the opposite effect on kids. Some children still have the energy from playing when they come back to the classroom. They behave even more out of control than before. Some students are also more exhausted when they come back to class. But this is only 20% of the students. The majority have no problems with the basketball court.