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by Robin Ulbredtch
04/01/17
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Furniture Fallout

On a few occasions, experience taught me—the hard way—some lessons about the furnishings in my classroom that would help me to keep the students safe. This category of lessons I call Furniture Fallout. These things can happen in any class, and cause people to get hurt. Watch out for these and other types of furniture fallout in your classrooms.

Marker Board Mishap

On one occasion my classroom had a 2’ x 3’ square marker board sitting on an easel which was up next to the wall. Some overactive boys were running in the large classroom, and ran into the easel. As a result, the marker board fell off the easel and went crashing to the floor, landing right in front of a preschool-age girl. It scared her half to death and me too. I was not close enough to the easel to stop the calamity. Thank God for protecting this little one from a bad accident.

After sharing this incident with our pastor’s wife, we had all of the marker boards and other loose decorative items fastened tightly to the wall so they could not fall and hurt someone.

If church leaders can be aware of accident hazards, they can take measures to help make the classrooms a safer place. So, if you notice marker boards and other items that could result in an accident in your classroom, please notify your church leaders and have them fasten them down. This is especially important in rooms where children gather, as frequently they are unaware of the danger until someone get frightened or injured. By then its too late to eliminate the damage that's been done by furniture fallout.