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Constructing a seating chart is less a work of art, more like a puzzle. When you have to pack six rows of five stiff-metal and composite-wood desks with living, breathing, twisting teenagers whose very nature is to interact with one another at less than appropriate times, the task takes on a life of its own. Its importance becomes more fundamental to maintaining order than the casual observer might guess. Back in the day, when I was a kid, before corporal punishment was banished from schools, seating arrangements were commonly alphabetical. No doubt an efficient means for taking attendance. Classroom control