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Time To Rethink the School Desk?
theodp writes "As part of its reimagine the 21st-century classroom project, Slate asks: Is the best way to fix the American classroom to improve the furniture? While adults park their butts in $700 Aeron chairs, kids still sprawl and slump and fidget and dangle their way through the day in school furniture designed to meet or beat a $40 price point. 'We've seen in adults that if you put them in the right chair, their performance increases,' says Harvard's Jack Dennerlein. 'Is the same true for children? I can't see why not.' For school districts with deep pockets, there are choices — a tricked-out Node chair from IDEO and Steelcase can be had for $599."
Who knows how all us over twenties survived and still managed to get jobs, mortgages, cars, and RSPs sitting in those primitive uncomfortable chairs?
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
You had furniture in your school? We had to make do with moldy cardboard boxes for desks and sharp piles of rusting scrap metal for chairs, and we had to collect the scrap metal ourselves from train yards and storm drains. But try telling that to kids these days, they won't believe you!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Here is some durable, school appropriate furniture.
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because we don't want our kids living in our basement until 30? this is slashdot after all....
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Australians do it that way, starting at 10 am, there was an article about half a year ago on mindhacks about the adolescent sleep behaviour, with a lot of useful details.
For the furniture problem ... well, we're talking amercan students, so you should use steel, lots of it.
Fabulous. I love how a "feature" of each of their products is "attractive look". I have to disagree.
"If you have legs and are flammable, you are never blocking a fire exit."
Because there's ample evidence that spending more money creates better results. That's why children are 3 times more educated than they were back in the 1950s.