school desk

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One video starts with the character face down on a school desk, his legs not even close to touching the ground.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Recife's councilwoman Cida Pedrosa was the key mover in introducing the new legislation: "A lot of the stories that I'd heard were of people who were humiliated because they couldn't fit behind a school desk."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022

Joe Trupia fell back into the seat of an old wooden school desk.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2022

The song appears as the soundtrack to another gag on TikTok that shows an image of a school desk emblazoned with the phrase: “I bought a Gen-X bomb shelter today.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2022

So I can see the jarring scene, albeit in gray scale: Margo Roth Spiegelman sits in a black leather office chair, hunched over a school desk, writing.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green