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I’m pretty sure that’s not the case in most public high schools in the US. Parents would go apeshit if they wasted money like that.

• Pulcinella 4y ago
  Schools burn cash in a “it’s expensive to be poor” kind of way. The desks in the schools I worked in were practically consumable, only lasting a couple of years before needing to be replaced. It’s impressive in a frustrating way: manufacturers have finally figured out the exact minimum amount of material and exactly how shoddy and few the welds can be to produce a desk and still be able to sell them. There is absolutely no bracing so sitting on them bends everything out of tolerance until a weld fails or the 4 legs are splayed out flat against the floor.
  • paulryanrogers 4y ago
    Hopefully the equipment isn't failing with kids present. Sounds dangerous.
    • Hextinium 4y ago
      The school I help at has these metal chairs with plastic inserts for the final inch of the leg. One leg will regularly snap off enough that they cut the rest of them off at the wood shop and put them back in the classroom, it's kinda funny seeing like half the chairs being a inch too short.