http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/woodrow+cummins+elementary+school/default.aspxTags: woodrow cummins elementary schoolenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/14/whip-it-kids-turn-to-80s-music-for-classroom-makeover.aspxFri, 14 Nov 2008 18:58:00 GMT42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:146576Kate Tuttle0http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=146576http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/14/whip-it-kids-turn-to-80s-music-for-classroom-makeover.aspx#comments<p><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/11/08-15/001devokids.jpg"><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/11/08-15/001devokids.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="238" hspace="4" width="318" /></a>Today&#39;s <a href="http://eimakeover.shycast.com/contestant/265/" target="_blank">adorable kid-vid</a>: first-graders in the Woodrow Cummins Elementary School in Conway, Arkansas, entered a contest to win a high-tech upgrade for their classroom, and they chose the best possible soundtrack: Devo&#39;s &quot;Whip It,&quot; re-mastered as &quot;Click It,&quot; now a schoolkid&#39;s exhortation to go forward, move ahead, and finish that damn long division lesson already.<br /></p><p>While other classrooms used music to sell themselve, including a cover of The Romantics&#39; &quot;What I Like About You,&quot; the Devo-loving kids were the most inventive, joyful, and irreverent. And their teacher looks like the kind of teacher we all wish we&#39;d had at least once. Voting ends today!&nbsp; </p><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=146576" width="1" height="1">videosdevofirst-graderscontestswoodrow cummins elementary school80s music