As we approach the 21st century, we have evolved to a technological climax. Once, to change the channel on the T.V, one would have to get up from a comfortable position and walk all the way there ourselves. Now, a simple click of a button on a remote suffices. Today we can send mail instantly without even walking to a mailbox. We have even eliminated typing and programs allow you just to talk. Yet, our primitive classroom decorum has failed to evolve. The ape like fashion in which we "raise our hands" to be called on is crude and ridiculous. However, a fashioned buzzer, or click and light, method would modernize this old fashioned method of "raising our hands."

Imagine a class full of kids raising their hands. Each child has his own way to raise his hand. One with the "oh oh oh oh," one with the "call on meeeeee!," and one simply shaking his hand in the air as if there is no tomorrow. A dozen children shaking and shouting is quite a sight to see and can hardly be called a conducive to learning environment. More over, it is degrading and mentally harmful to our children. We are teaching them to draw attention to themselves as if they were clowns. A buzzer would amend all this. When a child knows the answer he would "buzz in" and there would be no shaking or shouting. Also, there will only be one buzz. After the first child buzzes in the other buzzers would shut off making it easy to decide who should answer first. This approach is more effective then raising hands, where all one sees is twenty hands shoot up, shaking and shouting. In that situation, it would take a rocket scientist or someone of his qualifications to tell who raised his hand first. A buzzer would silence and simplify the classroom environment.

As we have advanced in technology, we have found ways to clean the waste products of factories and power plants. But, alas, again our classrooms have lagged behind. Every child gets hot and suffers from body odor, which generally originates in the armpit regions. Raising a hand in such haste can release these harmful odors into our fragile ecosystem and cause a malodorous smell, which could be damaging and distracting to our learning children. The click and light method could be run on solar power and reduce the smell in the classroom, greatly increasing the children's concentration. They could keep their arms closed and just use one finger to click a button, and the light near their desk would turn on. Consequently, classroom body odor would be non-existent. In addition, the low amount of work clicking a button requires would prevent children's bodies from overheating, reducing their smell.

The everyday risks of life, like plugging in a radio, crossing the street, and going to a concert, are enough hazards for one day. The last place we want to increase risks is our classrooms. However, the promptness in which we raise our hands is another risk we add to our lives. In an attempt to be called on first, one might raise his hand and not knowingly give a concussion to his neighbor. An elbow to the temple or a smack to the cheek, are just two ways this primitive tradition could harm our children. A buzzer though, is just a click, which at most could break a nail. The lack of such a violent and hasty movement would make a day full of risks a little bit safer.

Finally, picture this: you are observing a class on the existentialist interpretation of Lazy Boy recliner chairs. The teacher asks, "How can one understand the addition of concealable foot rests with reference to Kafka?" Although, everyone in the class knows the answer, chaos ensues. In the span of a few seconds, twenty students' hands go up. Some pupils hit each other, unintentionally, we hope. As the wounded cry for help, their pleas go unheard by the professor because he is lost in an attempt to choose a single hand from a bewildering sea of arms that swing back and forth as if they had minds of their own. Sardonically reminding him that those demanding arms are connected to students, and disorienting the poor teacher, is the musky stench that has quickly filled the room and the loud shouts of "Call on me!" and the like. The Principle pays this class a visit to enjoy a relaxing lecture on modern seating surfaces and is welcomed not only by
a fowl smell, but by concussion suffering students on the floor, hooting pupils calling attention to themselves atop desks, and the teacher, now in the throws of a complete mental collapse, isolated and afraid in the corner. This all could have been avoided with a single, solitary buzz.