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No rocking on new school chairs

A former teacher has

designed a school chair

which he claims is

impossible to tip backwards.

Tom Wates gave up his

teaching post in Blackheath in

south-east London to design

the "Max Chair".

It has curved legs that preventit rocking and provides more

support for the lower back,

forcing children to sit up

straight.

His company has already

received orders for 1,500 chairs

from 18 schools having

launched the product three

weeks ago.

Mr Wates, 34, said it is physically impossible to swing the

chair backwards more than a few centimetres.

"The reason I went into it was because of the irritation of

children leaning back," said Mr Wates who gave up teaching

in July 2007.

"You would get into the flow of the lesson, the kid would fall

off the chair, everyone would laugh and you would have to

start again," the former maths and PE teacher said.

About 7,000 British school children need to go to hospital

each year after injuring themselves by tipping backwards on

chairs, according to government figures.

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