[kenth]

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[jtminton]

"It sounds like an excessive restriction. I'm not aware of other schools with 260 kids who have resorted to this. This sounds overreaching to me," she said.

However, I bet if you compare lunch dicipline problems between this school and one that does not assign seats you will see a difference. Just a guess.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Iron Matron]

Spoiled brats. Father and daughter.

[Just another Joe]

Call her a WAHHHHmbulance.

[KJacob]

"I think the school thinks the students are going to cause trouble at lunch. It's wrong to punish the kids who do nothing. We need to talk to our friends during lunch," Gianna LoPresti said.



She didn't exactly do nothing. She broke a rule. I had assigned seats in Grammer School 25 years ago. I fail to see the big deal.

[Born Conservative]

[JesseHousman]

The fodder needs to find out at what leval his dotter reads....then get made about the kafetria seeting arangemint!

[robertpaulsen]

The time to take this up is at the beginning of the school year when presented with the student handbook.

Not when your daughter is found in violation.

You have much more credibility that way.

[dead]

I can't talk to my friends during lunch!

[latina4dubya]

when i was in grammar school back in the mid-70's, i remember the school i attended had each class share a table... you had to sit with your class... i don't remember anybody questioning it or complaining about it... and each table/class was dismissed from lunch one at a time... then we went to the playground...

the school i went to before that did not have this set up... we sat wherever and were able to leave after a certain amount of time passed... (i think we were at least set up in sections by grade, however)...

[Sloth]

If you let kids wander wherever they wanted, the parents would say 'What kind of school are you running? You let the kids run wherever they want,"' Groff said.

We never had assigned seating at lunch, and I never heard anyone object like this.

Anyhow, let's extrapolate this educrat's idea...

'If you let kids citizens wander wherever they wanted, the parents U.N. would say 'What kind of school country are you running? You let the kids citizens run wherever they want,"'

[zook]

Quite frankly, I like this girl's attitude. In all my years attending and teaching in public schools I never saw schools assign lunch seats. At most, in elementary school, we had to sit according to the way we had lined up.

It's not that we had better behaved kids, but rather that we had more supervision and that kids who acted badly ended up having to clean tables and floors.

Sometimes schools need to have their rules challenged and in my opinion this one needs it. Schools have been increasingly restricting the amount of time kids have for interacting with each other outside the direct control of adults. Unless there are some really strange circumstances that the school hasn't told us, I'd say they need to loosen the chains.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Now, her father is suing the school, saying the rule violates First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

Get a life, Giovanni.

[Mr. Bird]

"The students are allowed to move around the cafeteria," said Schools Superintendent Doug Groff. "All they have to do is ask permission from teachers or the principal. It's not that they're restricted. It's just decorum."

While I think the rule is a little silly, it appears the school allows socializing. My (uneducated) guess is that the girl just kept roaming around without asking for permission. This is much different than the case the father is making.

[Skooz]

The NEA does it's damage for sure. But not all of the decline of the public school system is due to the NEA. Idiot parents who undermine discipline in schools must share some of the responsibility.

Imbecile.

[BSunday]

I guess nobody ever told her she could feel free to make friends with those she was seated by. Oh no, that would be totall uncool. Fer sure.

[kjam22]

Here is the girl's picture...

[SaveTheChief]

Not sure that I agree with a lot of the folks who have commented here.

Though we can all see why the school established the policy of assigned seating, it seems to remind me of completely unfair and unnecessary laws that restrict everyone of liberties when attention should only be given to a few.

Take the kids who are causing trouble in the lunchroom and discipline them. Lazyness on a part of the school to supervise these kids is no excuse to submit them to a gulag-like environment.

[Liberal Classic]

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