Posted on 10/07/2014 8:50:25 AM PDT by NCjim
ASPEN, Colo. Aspen Elementary School officials want students to be quiet during their 20-minute lunch, and have imposed a new set of rules and penalties for talkative youngsters to keep down cafeteria chatter.
Many parents, however, are speaking up about the policy, which was outlined in a school newsletter that was recently sent home with students. School administrators reportedly told students they must use a 1-inch rule to speak during their lunch, meaning they can only open their mouths one inch to whisper, according to the Aspen Times.
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Where is this? Red China?
I can see it now....
School lunch ladies running around with rulers to measure the open mouths of 7 and 8 year olds.
Idiocy. Sheer, unabated, liberal idiocy.
Is Aspen another left wing controlled city, over ran with fascist liberals from NY and Californicator Land?
We had silent lunches when I was in elementary school too. We would inhale our lunches so we could go outside and play/talk.
Just more of the Compliance Indoctrination that will be required if these children are to be Camp Guards and Death Facilitators.
What recess?
The schools are eliminating recess.
They need more time for indoctrination.
Jeez, are they sent to the principle’s office at gunpoint for chewing gum in class, too? Lighten up, lunch is one of the few times they get to talk to each other.
Colorado seems to have surpassed California as the deepest looney bin.
It is to isolate the children and make them more accepting of the government propaganda.
“If you don’t eat your Michelle Obama Approved Nutrition (MOAN), you can’t have any pudding!
“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your Michelle Obama Approved Nutricion?”
Many “educators” are completely fascist asses.
Big deal. This rule has been used in American institutions for years.
http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/rs3.htm
Humans are social animals, we talk to each other over meals because we can.
They dont want the kids talking amongst themselves about how much the school lunch sucks.
Got to train those little tykes to obey the state. Train them to believe that the state can take away their right to talk and thereby, their freedom of speech.
HA HA HA!!! I had to do this but I was in Catholic School!! I vividly remember Sister Marie Christine. She had a bell and would walk around the lunch room. If she caught you talking she would ring the bell, point at you, and you had to stand up to eat. If she caught you again, you had to eat your lunch in the corner!! WOW, guess those were the good old days!!
My school back in the 80s installed a “stoplight” rigged to a decibel meter. If it got too loud it went to yellow then red. When it hit red, it beeped. If it beeped 3 times during lunch, recess was canceled. When it hit yellow, most kids would instantly shut up which reset it back to green.
I know of a school where each class’s kids have to line up in height order and be perfectly silent as they walk to the lunchroom. If anyone peeps, they stop and don’t go to lunch until everyone is perfectly quiet again.
I don’t recall such irrational regimentation back in the ‘70s.
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