Chairs

There are a total of three kinds of study halls at Michuhol Foreign Language High School. The study hall is a place for students to study after a regular school day is over. Among the halls, the chairs used in the hall for second graders have become a hot potato. The chairs are usually made of a plastic or wood. Students complain that the chairs are uncomfortable.

 

The chairs used in each classroom are also hard plastic chairs; and since students sit on hard chairs even after a regular class is over, their posture becomes stiff and their level of dissatisfaction increases. Not being able to study in comfortable chairs not only increases students’ discomfort but also worsens their health. Hard and uncomfortable chairs make students sit hunched and alternative wheeled chairs are not fixed, affecting their studying posture.

 

However, the most problematic aspect of this is that different students have different chairs. Using different chairs for different students can lead to conflicts among students. When absent for a short time, physical or emotional fights may occur as they switch chairs or compete for good chairs — wheeled chairs. In this way, it seems natural to have a fight with other friends over using the chair that suits one, especially when you have no choice but to use the chair that was randomly selected. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a plan to solve the chair problem in the study rooms.

 

Then, how can we solve this problem? Is it the only way to replace all of about 170 chairs in the study hall altogether? Fortunately, we have a clever alternative: to make the most of what we have. 

 

We can relocate the current chairs in the study hall to some classrooms for major languages; and move those in the classrooms—which are about to be replaced with new ones—to the study hall. We can just change the chairs in the classrooms into those in the study hall, and give the students presents of new comfortable chairs in the study hall. It is a rational assumption that new classroom chairs will also have a comfortable cushion and a supportive back, as the current chairs are decent enough for students’ lumbar to be supported by the soft backs.

 

Meanwhile, the study room is being used for approximately four hours daily, while the classrooms are only utilized for zero to one hour. Bentham would likely be ecstatic about this idea! How utilitarian! Simply switch the chairs, waists are under the care.

 

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