If you’re in Heritage right now, chances are that you’re sitting in a blue plastic chair. Am I right? How comfortable are you? Students spend roughly 35 hours per week, 1,260 hours per year, and 15,120 hours in their entire 12 years of required schooling (excluding kindergarten) sitting in hard, plastic chairs.  Don’t get me wrong, students are thankful to the Rogers School District for providing chairs as it would be incredibly inconvenient to have to lug around personal chairs.  We’re Americans though, which means we are always looking for ways to improve on the things we use in our daily lives. Some attention has been brought upon the exact level of comfort these chairs are. These are the responses that were received when students were asked their opinion of the chairs.

“I don’t think the chairs are comfortable, but I also don’t think that they’re not comfortable.”- Erica Reaser, Sophomore

“I think the curvature is off, especially where the chairs go outwards around the booty, inwards for the back and they are not aesthetically pleasing. The side slant on bottom which leads to the back piece is unnecessary. The circles on the back make no sense.”-Loïc Gibson, Junior

Even a former student was asked her opinion to see if the chairs have always been this way.

“I never had any trouble falling asleep while sitting in them, but, I mean, any chair would be better with padding or a pillow. Sitting that long on plastic isn’t good for anyone’s back.”-Kayla Scott, Graduate of 2013

Evidently the chairs have some room for improvement. They are still somewhere in the middle between comfy and being so hard that we need an in-school chiropractor. Simply adding a layer of padding to the seat and the back rest of the chair could be better for all students as it would improve posture and decrease the distraction that discomfort ensues.