I am BESIDE myself....
My kids went to a new public school last year for 3rd grade, and they were allowed to talk during lunch. In fact, my daughter said that some of the boys would talk about sex at lunch.
The kids were noisy and it was always chaotic.
For numerous reasons, we put my daughters in a small private Christian school for 4th grade.
For lunch, the kids sit at their desks and the teachers read a book to them. After 15 minutes, the kids get to go run around outside. My daughters like this much better than last year.
Me, too.
There is a word for this: it's eleven letters long and it starts with a "ch" and ends with an "it".
Even St. Rose of Lima would be astounded at the absence of common sense exhibited by this school's administration.
At the Catholic school I went to a hundred years ago, no one was permitted to talk at lunch. Which means we ate our own lunches Then we packed up and went out to play for at least 30 minutes. In all weather except raining buckets.
some of my children went to Waldorf school where they went out in all weather. It was part of learning about nature.
Today in the school in our local town the children are not permitted recess if the temp and wind chill factor combine to be 15 degrees. NOT MINUS 15 degrees. Just 15 degrees. It hits that often in these northern climes.
The childrens' theory is that there are some teachers who dont want to stand outside and they lobbied to pass this ridiculous rule.
Ummm...
We weren't allowed to talk at lunch during my six years at Katlick gramma skool, 1958-1964.