Supersize students offered classroom comfort

I agree that kids need more excercise, but a little wandering around between classes isn't going to help a 225kg child fit into a smaller chair. These kids and their PARENTS need to be taught healthy eating and living. I bet the money would be better used if it went to night classes for parents to teach them cooking skills, etc.

I would be happy if my desk seat had a friggin cushion!
And as far as the students being fat? Little wonder when the average student sits for an hour and a half, walks to another class sits for another hour then sits at lunch for twenty minutes, et cetera, et cetera. Frankly, I would love the opportunity to stand up and streach a bit or walk around but when I do I get told to sit down. Don't blame the kids for being overwieght- they are the ones suffering.

I think that schools should be increasing the amount of activity kids do each day - instead of 30minutes a day of PE, incease it to an hour - or offer incentives (like extra credit?) to be more active. The obesity crisis in America and globally is outrageous - and technology and produce prices arent helping.

But, obese individuals need to take some ownership and work to become more healthy on their own - instead of looking to surgery and medication to miraculously cure them

Riiight, and permanently screw up his knees and hips and ankles and backbone in the process - great idea! Sheesh!

Screw the chair this kid needs some old school exercise!

I think that being larger is embarrassing enough, at a tender age, and we all know that peers can and are crewel.

That child didn't get that way overnight. And you cannot blame him/her solely for being overweight. In the USA, for example, healthy foods cost much more than processed foods that contain more calories. Many families cannot afford all the fresh fruits and veggies, salads and lean meats. So they buy the best they can, and make do. No parent wants to harm their child, no parent wants their child to be the object of ridicule either. We all want for happy, healthy children, but with poverty and high food prices, there are few choices, even for much of the middle class.

Many schools have taken recess, PE out of schedules, also adding to this problem.

So before you make fun of the fat kid, imagine being the fat kid and not knowing how to get out of that situation, just being told to eat less, yet you are still hungry. And most likely the stress from the other people making fun of you makes you want to eat even more.

I am glad that they at least can sit at a desk that doesn't cause them pain and possibly learn something besides shame while they are in school.

I was an oversensitive child, and it would make me cry to see others picking on the overweight boy with "boobs" in our elementary class. I would ask them to be quiet, but I was not very big, and no one listened. One day he cried too, but a few months later he told me that what I did helped, and I thought I failed.. the word of the day: COMPASSION.

225 kg ~ 500 lbs - That's a BIG student!!

This is putting educational finance in completely the wrong place...

If the chairs help make student more attentive then that just makes the teachers job easier.

I would lay some of the blame on break fastcereal companies, most of the varieties aimed towards kids are filled with garbage like tons of sugar, wheat starch, corn syrup, refined grains instead of whole grains.
Corn syrup rears it's ugly head in the most unexpected places for example I was looking to buy some dehyrated cranberries, I couldn't find any that didn't contain Corn syrup!

Maybe some of the obese children should hang out with the Bra boys, all of whom seem to be in excellent physical shape.

Japan has a program that offers a one-on-one monthly session, where the parent and child are given specific instructions on how to improve their eating and living habits. Many continue on with the program even after their year ends. Perhaps Aussie children would benefit from something similar .

225 kg thats funny to say. when we all know that ass is from the U.S.

Severly obese school childen are not going to get a better quality of life or a better education just because schools are buying bigger chairs. Instead, someone needs to step up and address the actual problem which is how the child became so obese in the first place, and offer them real help for their condition.

The Americanisation of Australia is partly to blame in relation to the obesity problem facing our country. Where people once made meals, they now eat crap like Hungry Jacks [our version of Burger King] on a regular basis, and we have an influx of American snacks plaguing our shelves with their shiny packaging and delicious taste of sugary goodness.

"Its telling us something about our health and our lifestyle. Children are watching too much television and playing too many computer games."

I hate statements like this - yeah because sitting down in class for 4-5 hours is any better.

The chairs can hold up to 225kg?

What kind of schoolchild wieghs 225kg?

Badly designed and poor load bearing school furniture can have a more serious consequence of back injury if it collapses. As a student who experienced the pain and embarrasment of this more than once I would have welcomed a sturdier and more accommodating seat of learning.