Should WHB replace the stairs with escalators?

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This picture features Lexie Pedneault in the hallways she hopes will soon be a whole lot safer.

The 21st century, also referred to as the information or computer age, is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry brought about by the industrial revolution, to an era of computerized information and innovation. This century has seen the creation of the iPhone, electric car, and even, according to some sources, teleportation.

While things like cell phones and automobiles may be commonplace to people nowadays, they both began as nothing more than an idea. Had people been unwilling to listen to these ideas, we may still be handwriting letters and walking places.

Keeping this in mind, I would like to appeal to the reader to give another new idea a chance. Junior Lexie Pedneault is proposing something that, in my unbiased opinion, may just be the defining idea of our generation. “I think we should replace the stairs with escalators,” explained Lexie, “we would be less tired and thus more capable of learning, because walking up stairs can be incredibly strenuous.”

Although Lexie says she has not looked into the costs that would be involved in installing 10 escalators in the school, she feels that regardless of whatever the cost may be it will be well worth it.

Naturally there would be some risk to putting escalators into the school and Lexie acknowledged this when she stated, “We would have to make sure that no backpacks, clothing, or children got stuck in the escalators.” However, surely she is not alone in saying that any potential risk to the student’s safety is a mere bump on the road to success.

Now, to anyone living in the continental United States, the current obesity epidemic is certainly not anything new. This subject has been discussed on of a plethora of media outlets including countless news reports and movies. It is for this very reason that one may understandably have concerns about removing staircases and installing a more leisurely method of transportation. Pedneault said that while she feels that doing so will most likely contribute to the current epidemic, it is a risk she is willing to take.

Pedneault feels that not only would these installations make life easier for the general public, but for students with injuries as well. Most students are aware that anyone on crutches must leave class five minutes early to take the elevator to their next class. If we were to have escalators, injured students would no longer need this time and could join their classmates on the public transport.

 Students around the school are jumping on board with this plan and actually proposing that the escalators be solar powered, which would make this idea even more innovative. Other students hope we could one day even install the moving ramps that airports have in our hallways.

Every six minutes, an American child falls down the stairs. With the installment of escalators instead of stairways, hopefully the next child to fall won’t be a fellow Hurricane.