What if we spent money on homes for our kids? If we diverted the millions of dollars that we spend on rewriting standards and developing standardized assessment after standardized assessment? Rebecca Klein in her Huffington Post Education article explores two districts who found and means and the method to build and offer such homes. I know in my heart they have an important answer. One young man in the story celebrates having supper at the same time very night; another young lady notes that with pencils and laptops at the ready she has no excuse for not doing homework. I know in my heart that this is an enormous undertaking, but we have kids who are crying for structure that no amount of instructional time or teacher trainings or new unit plans can provide. If given such structure, would test scores be raised and graduation rates increase? According to the article " Twenty-three out of 24 students who have resided at Joe's Place have graduated from high school [compared] to the graduation rate of a group of student who did not participate in Joe's Place but who faced similar harsh life circumstances has only seen two out of 21 students graduate."What if?