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Pupils who are too tall cannot stay there, the corpulent ones have more difficulty finding the position but there is another very serious problem that affects the functionality of the new benches with wheels chosen by Lucia Azzolina for Italian schools: employment by mancini. Children who use their left hands to write are perhaps the most penalized for the decision to use rolling benches in classrooms. This is because the table where they should take notes and perform their tasks is on the right and cannot always be folded to the opposite side.
A serious lack of sessions that, formally, cannot be defined as school desks. It is the same commissioner Domenico Arcuri specify it in Annex 2 of the tender notice, where they are defined “products not yet classified, for the purposes of the UNI EN standard, in the category of school desksWith this in mind, it is not surprising that among the appreciated (non-mandatory) qualities of these chairs are the support on wheels, the wheel stop, the variability of the seat and worktop height and the availability of more pastel colors. , but the left-handed clause is not required.
This aspect, which was not considered by the Minister of Education when choosing the new school furniture, was highlighted by several parties. It was mainly the children, directly interested in a choice of those who know little about school, who underlined the objectives difficulty in the use of benches with wheels. We contacted by telephone the “Ognissanti” State Integral Institute of Codogno, one of the emblematic cities of the Covid emergency. Also for this reason he was one of the first to receive the infamous benches on wheels. “They arrived on August 28. They arrived assembled and ready to be used. I am from hard plastic, from that plastic I suppose that everything is up to par and I have a flap with an arm mounted on the right“, explains the director Cecilia Cugini. We have expressly asked her about the functionality of these desks also for the use of left-handed children:”It cannot be moved to the left, the flap can be moved to the center. I’m left-handed too, so I tried it too. The southpaw doesn’t have too many inconvenience, but I can’t exclude someone“.
Even on the question of wheels, the director expressed perplexity on the use in class for what they were bought: “The wheels were not designed to cope with the Covid emergency. These sessions are called ‘innovative didactic sessions’, that is, a morning when the emergency will end and it will no longer be necessary to respect the physical distance of at least one meter between one student and another, indeed these desks could be comfortable for be transferred. do group work, do all cooperative learning activities“.
As it is written in the call, the wheel stop is an element appreciated but not binding, for which proposals have been accepted for the supply of showcases that do not have it, such as those of Codogno: “Currently they are placed at a distance of at least 1 meter from each other and, as the wheels cannot stop, we have put signs on the ground to delimit the maneuvering space of these benches.“. Dr. Cugini then adds:”The measure is standard, they are desks that we have designed for Baccalaureate, therefore the children of a Baccalaureate“When asked if there might be difficulties for” non-standard “children in terms of height, Cecilia Cugini admits that”you must get used to a bit actually“Similar opinions come from an institute in Cagliari, where benches with wheels have arrived in some secondary schools.”They are small and fragile“informs school staff. At the Istituto Comprensivo Ognissanti in Codogno, benches on wheels were required for a small number of classes,”Of the 24 classes that we have, we have ordered them by 9, the others use single-seater benches, where we had the possibility of saving spaces and distances, we have confirmed them“.
The words of the director of the comprehensive school of Codogno, if necessary, are confirmed in the letter of a student Posted by La Stampa: “At first I didn’t think it would be uncomfortable. To understand this, it was enough to have to take notes with a small notebook. Once in place, there was enough space for the pen and mask. I don’t know what I’ll do when I have to carry a book or dictionaryShe also focuses on the problem of left-handers and unbraked wheels:My left-handed friend is even more uncomfortable than I am. The station wheels roll freely, which is annoying. Obviously at the first time change some of my male companions did a race self-driving“.
