Marin County School Nixes Sedentary Education With Standing Desks For Students
April 28th, 2015Knowing that I sit too much, I ran the standing desk idea past my chiropractor. She rolled her eyes like, “Oh god, here’s another one.”
Sitting too much. Bad.
Standing too much. Bad.
She likes the idea of a desk that switches between sitting and standing positions and changing every half hour with a walk around the house in between.
So, I pretty much still sit too much. But I am thinking about getting a DeskCycle.
Via: CBS:
A lot of people say we should stand up for education but, at Vallecito Elementary in San Rafael, they’re actually doing it.
“To me, this is the wave of the future,” says 4th grade teacher Maureen Zink.
In four of the school’s classrooms, chairs have been removed and students spend the day standing at their desks. Some parents, concerned about how sedentary kids have become, donated money for the new desks.
A lot of the kids thought the change was weird and it took a few weeks for legs to stop being sore.
But then something really weird started happening — the kids began to like it.
I’ve had one of these for about 2.5 years now and I must say I really love it. The company has many different models and configurations.
http://www.ergodesktop.com/content/kangaroo-pro-junior
It is easy to switch between sit/stand modes, though I stand for about 95% of my desk time. It is visually unobtrusive and has a relatively small footprint, and can be plopped right down on an existing desk. It wasn’t cheap, customer service is at the mom-and-pop level, and you’d probably need to wait several weeks for it, but it was the best among the many alternatives I researched and I am grateful for it every day.