The Class of 2017
We wanted to know what Texas will be like in the future, so we asked the next generation of doctors, schoolteachers, superstar athletes, construction workers, and stay-at-home moms. We crisscrossed the state interviewing third-graders in tiny schoolhouses and on elite private campuses, and they had plenty to say about population growth, time travel, and whether the ground will be made out of lava.

