Madam, - Attention to better posture in the classroom is essential.
A cursory glance into any examination hall reveals Junior and Leaving Cert students sitting collapsed over desks. How can students perform to their optimum when their backs are slouched, their shoulders hunched and their lungs compressed?
With instruction it is possible for students to sit at their desks with ease - body upright and relaxed, legs not wrapped around the legs of the chair, pencil not chewed or held rigid. This results in a significant improvement in alertness, appearance, performance and health. Students would then approach exams with less physical strain and a better self-image.
This is Alexander Technique Annual Awareness Week, celebrating F.M. Alexander (1869-1955) discovering a technique that corrects poor posture and movement and restores natural poise and co-ordination. - Yours, etc,
FRANK KENNEDY, Callary Road, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.