Tell you what. At least the ones I’d used were damn well built. The absolute beating those things took and withstood. Paint got chipped was about it. Maybe the arm drooped a bit from those days’ big kids.
American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
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Re: American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
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Schools absolutely burn cash on furniture these days. Even when I was in high school it was bad. School administrators went to an apple store and had to buy those expensive huge solid wood tables they had for the common areas, which people promptly defaced in a few years. Wooden lockers too in the new wing, but they had those crappy cabinet hinges that tend to pop off with typical usage, so half the lockers would end…
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.
Re: American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Schools absolutely burn cash on furniture these days. Even when I was in high school it was bad. School administrators went to an apple store and had to buy those expensive huge solid wood tables they had for the common areas, which people promptly defaced in a few years. Wooden lockers too in the new wing, but they had those crappy cabinet hinges that tend to pop off with typical usage, so half the lockers would end…
You can buy the tables from the Apple store? Really?
A web search turned up these folks who may be involved in the actual Apple store tables:
Re: American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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 absolut…
Re: American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 absolut…
Hopefully the equipment isn't failing with kids present. Sounds dangerous.