We found a significant association between students position and both school performance and absence.
Accordingly, students who sit far from the board had lower school performance and higher percentage of absence the best performances (grade and presence) were more frequent
for students who sit at the front position
From the questionnaire, only a few students (9.60 %;41 students) did not choose a fixed seat at the school
and were not considered in this survey. The others (90.4%; 386) are shown in (contrasting questions 1 and 2).Students’ reason to choose a seat
was associated with seat position. Students sitting in the front position mostly declared motivation for learning as a main reason to choose a seat; on the other hand,friendship was most important for those at the middle
rows and the back position was associated to social