Friday, February 8, 2019

Desk chair despair is pervasive

Michael Lehman and Charles Bray
Staff Writers

For the students at New Hope-Solebury High School, the most annoying thing that every student experiences might not be the homework, projects, or even tests. The most annoying thing of all is the desks with the silver bar which lies next to the right leg.
  When sitting in one of these desks, you can feel trapped. There is no room to move around, and at times, you may forget that it is even there and try to get out of your seat from the right side, then you realize the bar is there and you have to turn your body and go out the left side. Those are just some minor problems that the desk causes compared to this one: when you are sitting in a group where all four desks are together in a square, the two desks on the back side of the square have the silver bar trapping them from leaving. The silver bar is on the right side restricting you from leaving and the other person is on your left which leaves you no room to squeeze through. At this point the only option is to slide your desk to the right until you have enough room to get up and leave through the left side without the other person getting in the way. Although this problem has been going on for decades, there may be a solution to this epidemic.
  There are two types of desks in New Hope Solebury High School. The annoying desk with the silver bar on the right side of the leg, and the normal desk that has the chair connected to the desk by two silver rods running from the bar of the chair and continues under the chair and back up until it reaches the front of the desk. This type of desk is the ideal desk that all other desks should strive to become. There is no restriction from leaving on the right or left side of the desk. There is a pencil holder which the annoying desk does not offer. You can even stretch your back out on the ideal desk. By pushing forward on the front of the desk and leaning back in your chair, the desk gets pushed forward and chair goes back as a result of the desk and chair being connected. The outcome of this is the perfect back stretch which you cannot get with the annoying desk.
  For all the hard work that the students of New Hope Solebury High School produce on a daily basis, all students deserve the highest quality desks available. With the annoying desks gone, and the ideal desk being the only desk in the school, grades and attendance will skyrocket due to the new comfort of the school.  It may even be very positive for the students.