R.I. School Bans Talking at Lunch (WHAT'S NEXT....BREATHING???!!!)

The Associated Press / http://www.saintroseschool.com/ ^ | 1/25/07 | JUSTIN M. NORTON

[Tax-chick]

As opposed to throwing it around the cafeteria.

Or talking with their mouths full.

[Tax-chick]

There's probably not a lot of playground time in Rhode Island this time of year!

I think part of the problem is that lunch periods are too short. The children are trying to gobble their food and also get in all their chatter for the whole day. I've heard parents around here complain about this.

[kindred]

[Schools are more and more resesmbling prisons.]

Because kids are more and more resembling prisoners. The evil of the secular humanists grows and spreads in this dying Christian nation as the children and parents are godless and without hope.

[luckystarmom]

We used to go into the gym and play on rainy days when I was a kid.

[Tax-chick]

Better than nothing. We had to stay in our classrooms and play board games or read when I lived in Rhode Island.

[Amelia]

Considering that these "First Amendment violations" are occuring at a private Catholic school where parents have voluntarily placed their children, I'm having trouble figuring out what all the fuss is about.

Gonna spend the rest of the weekend grading papers, working on lessons/labs for next week, and updating progress reports, but I did want to stop in & say "HI" to y'all.

[Blowtorch]

Do you see a therapist for post traumatic stress syndrome?

No, because I think I got over it, but sometimes I wonder.... LOL- maybe that's why I talk too much now. But you know how it is - certain times in your childhood where you were wronged and couldn't do anything about it, you look back at those times and wonder if karma worked it out already or if the injustice is still outstanding. The adult me would sure like to go back in time to the mid 80s and that class, protect the child me, and right the wrong. Of course if I had a time machine, there'd be other priorities first, and maybe I'd never have time to post this.

[SoftballMominVA]

As I have said before, one doesn't sign over their Constitutional rights because they choose to do commerce with another. Freedom of speech applies in a Catholic school just as in a public school. For those that think all would be heaven on earth if we privatized education, that's a concept that doesn't even look good on paper, and in real life would be a disaster.