Sunset's Terra Boling creates space for learning

Things are a little different in Sunset Elementary School teacher Terra Boling's fifth-grade classroom.

For starters, there are no desks and few chairs. Instead, Boling's students sit around tables on plastic buckets - albeit nicely padded plastic buckets the materials for which she paid for out of her pocket and assembled with her father.

Boling said desks for 27 students in the crowded portable at the Cheney School District's Airway Heights school take up a lot of space. In fact, she doesn't even have her own desk, preferring to use a table when working with her students.

But then, the West...