Freedom of Speech? ROTFLMAO!!!!! This is a school. It requires order like all other large institutions. If they change the policy they are basically saying your kids can do whatever they want. If it was my kids and this happened, I'd be calling this idiot and tell him to keep his trap shut because if they change the policy i will have to pay for my kids to go to another school where children learn things like RULES!
Did you forget your sarcasm tags?
Or do you believe all of society ought to be structured like a prison.
I suppose that IS the American puritan utopian totalitarian viewpoint, but those freaks are at The DUmpster, not here.
Yes. Children need to be taught that every rule, no matter how inane or stupid it might seem, is to be followed. The government knows what's best for you.
Seating restrictions at lunch time is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard come out of a public school (and that's saying something). Why not simply make two separate lunch periods to split up the number of kids? There are other, better solutions. These are KIDS. They need to socialize.