[ReagansShinyHair]

The school I teach at already mostly bans talking at lunch. I think it's so unnatural to not speak while eating. In Indiana we often have to stay inside for recess during the winter, and the students watch movies. They don't get to talk all day. If my own child were at that school, I would raise a huge stink about it. I've tried to change things as much as I can, but there's nothing I can do. The administration mostly wants all the students AND teachers AND parents to sit down and shut up about everything.

[paulat]

The school I teach at already mostly bans talking at lunch. I think it's so unnatural to not speak while eating. In Indiana we often have to stay inside for recess during the winter, and the students watch movies. They don't get to talk all day. If my own child were at that school, I would raise a huge stink about it. I've tried to change things as much as I can, but there's nothing I can do. The administration mostly wants all the students AND teachers AND parents to sit down and shut up about everything.

...oh, my.....

[Essie]

And when my kids were in public school some of the elementary schools banned talking at lunch. It's not an unusual thing. But I will never understand where in the book of life it says that young children can be educated by sitting at a desk and filling in the blanks all day long and those that have trouble doing this are dysfunctional.

[wintertime]

The administration mostly wants all the students AND teachers AND parents to sit down and shut up about everything.
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Government schools trash the First Amendment every day. Well...so much for a citizen's right to free speech.