that the point is to remind us how awful it is to sit in one chair all day long, so that we may empathize with our students office workers everywhere.
I sit on a yoga ball so I don't have to empathize.
The point is, if there's one thing students need to be learning in school in order to prepare them for the information jobs in the new economy, it's how to sit in one chair all day long.
I have two chairs, plus a shared chair in another building.
Plus, I could sit in the office kitchen or, when it isn't booked, the conference room.
And how to keep their desks tidy.
A well-trained butt doesn't just flatten on its own.
My office chair is padded, has wheels and arm rests, and spins. We sure as shit didn't have chiars like that in high school.
I don't even have a desk. I have a tray so I can look at my computer in bed. it's actually super-lame. god I have been having continuous migraines for maybe ten days now, I would like to eat a shotgun-on-rye sandwich. maybe whole-grain mustard? no, with manchego and quince paste, but on ciabatta. that bluing oil sorta stuff would go good with quince paste, prolly.
it started raining so I went inside without getting a chance to swim (cruce lying on the sun-lounger comes first), but now it's clear-ish again. I suppose I need to make a good-faith effort to try every single thing that would make me not want to gouge my eyeballs out with a flat-head screwdriver, so I better get a few microns of daily exercise. off to swim. hey, did I ever tell y'all how much I suck at swimming? man, I am so bad at it. I mean, I can swim IRL in the sense of being able to swim across our swift tidal river in SC, or out in the ocean, but I can't do the crawl with goggles on. I turn my head to the side, breathe in water, and start drowning. I can do the breaststroke tho. titties pectoral muscles, hooray!
The best point in the article is about how in addition to sitting all the time, students don't get to talk much, and when they do it's usually a few who dominate.
A lot of meetings are like that too. ("I'm now going to read my slides and simultaneously go for the record for saying 'I' instead of 'we.'")
it's how to sit in one chair all day long.
Point is, I can go grab a coffee or take a toilet break whenever I want to -- granted not a given in the new freedom economy of the States -- but high school students can't.
If we could get a small table in there, I could grab a coffee and take a toilet break.