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On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'

— Jeff Kinney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

— Zach Galifianakis

I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.

— Sarah Gadon

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

— Sylvester Stallone

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.

— Pete Carroll

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

— Mia Love

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

— A. J. Jacobs

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

— Roald Dahl

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

— Norman MacCaig

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

— Jeremy Miller

I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

— James Lipton