Acoustical Society of America May 23 2025 When children are dropped off at a school or day care for the first time, there can be a lot of feelings and sometimes meltdowns caused by being separated from parents, meeting new people, and hearing new noises. Could the architecture of the room help to soothe at least some of the children's concerns? Classrooms without any sound absorption are the majority in Japan. My motivation was to make people aware of the importance of acoustics in classrooms