Assigned seating has been around forever. If they're doing it at lunch it's obviously because they've had problems in the past.
If you don't like it homeschool your kid. Discipline is not something that should be getting taken out of schools.
Yes, in classrooms. This is the first I've ever heard of assigned seating during lunch.
If they're doing it at lunch it's obviously because they've had problems in the past.
The rule is idiotic. And I'm not going to buy the notion that, well, they must have had their reasons for it. Tough cases make bad law -- or, in this case, bad school policy.
I am mystified by those who seem willing to defend any rule whatsoever, simply because "its the rule".
If you don't like it homeschool your kid.
Mine go to a private school. Oh, and they can sit where they want during lunch.
Discipline is not something that should be getting taken out of schools.
There is a world of difference between maintaining decorum, and over-regimentation of this sort. The staff could simply discipline the kids who misbehave, and not punish the rest by not allowing them to sit by their friends. Of course, that would require judgment and common sense.