As the school administrator there are many different tasks that fall squarely on your shoulders, among them is making sure that all of your students have a school that is properly equipped and provides a positive learning environment. In order to do this you have to hire the right teachers, keep a clean school that is warm in the winter and cool all summer long and you need to have the right types of school furniture in each classroom.

Most people never stop to think about the furniture that is used in schools, they just assume that it is picked out of some catalog where all school furniture comes from. Unfortunately nothing is as ever as simple as it seem and this include buying the right replacement furniture for all of your different classrooms. Each chair and every desk has to be picked very carefully to ensure that it fits where it is being purchased.

You have to realize that for the average student, their level of comfort in the classroom is going to have major impact on their ability to focus on what they are supposed to be learning and ultimately on their grades. For example if you provide your students with cheery and bright classrooms that have comfortable desks, they are likely to do much better than they will if the classrooms are dreary and filled with old and worn out furniture.

By the same token, while bright and cheerful can be encouraging, if you go too far, you are going to find that classrooms that are too distracting and you are still going to have problems with your students failing to learn their lessons and getting poor grades. Appearance is an important factor when you are looking for new desks and chairs, but a far more important factor is durability as you cannot afford to buy furniture you are going to have to replace in a very short time.

Any school furniture that you can manage to squeeze out of your ever shrinking budget is likely to have to last for several years if not more. If you think it was hard to get the school board to loosen their purse strings to buy one round of new furniture, try asking them again next year because the furniture you used the money to buy fell apart after only one school year.

Of the many pieces of furniture you need to buy for your school, the one piece that is likely to get the most use and abuse is your student's desks and chairs. A recent survey found that students ages 13-18 spend approximately 80% of their school day sitting down at their desks. Keeping this in mind, you are going to need to find chairs that offer a blend of both comfort and durability.

Modern school furniture manufactures offer three basic choices of materials for student seats, these are wood, soft plastic and hard plastic. Wood is perhaps the least popular of the choices as it tends to be more expensive and may not have the durability you need. Even though both hard and soft plastic offer many years of life, but you will find that soft plastic is a little more flexible and is likely to provide an extra level of comfort that the other two materials will not.

You are going to find that no matter what material the seats are made from, the legs are going to be made from either 14 or 18 gauge steel. You should always go for the legs made from 14 gauge steel as it is thicker and therefore significantly stronger meaning that it will prove to be more durable and last longer.

When it comes to picking the size of your new chairs, you should look for chairs that are low enough for the average child in his age group to sit with his back against the chair and his feet flat on the floor. This is the optimum position for proper back support and will increase attention and reduce fidgeting. Of course there will always be some that will have their feet dangling, you have to try and hit a happy median that fits the majority of your students.

At Integrity Furniture you will find that we carry very large selection of top quality school furniture, including desks and chairs for you to choose from. Our furniture is made to be durable enough to last for many years without breaking your budget to take care of your needs.