As remote schooling surged during the
pandemic, parents across the country realized
that many kids didn’t have desks at home.
So they got busy building, collecting and donating
them, giving hundreds or thousands of students
workspaces to call their own and helping them
get through long days of virtual learning.
For Mitch Couch in the Central California town of
Lemoore, inspiration struck when his 16-year-old
daughter and 9-year-old son kept taking over the
kitchen table for their remote lessons. He made
desks for them, and thought: Why not provide
others’ children with individual learning areas
they could decorate with stickers and paint?