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Aspen elementary school employees blow whistles to enforce ‘silent lunch’
EAG ^ | October 7, 2014 | Victor Skinner

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aspen; elementaryschool; homeschool; idiocy; publicschools; publicskools
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To: NCjim

Where is this? Red China?


21 posted on 10/07/2014 8:58:44 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Thanks for your clarity!

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?

22 posted on 10/07/2014 8:59:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I Barrack E Obolabama support the left wing war on Ebola. Fox News and Republicans will fight me.)
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To: NCjim

We had silent lunches when I was in elementary school too. We would inhale our lunches so we could go outside and play/talk.


23 posted on 10/07/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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To: NCjim

Just more of the Compliance Indoctrination that will be required if these children are to be Camp Guards and Death Facilitators.


24 posted on 10/07/2014 9:00:22 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: VanDeKoik
No tag at recess???

What recess?

The schools are eliminating recess.

They need more time for indoctrination.

25 posted on 10/07/2014 9:01:06 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: NCjim

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.


26 posted on 10/07/2014 9:01:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: NCjim

Colorado seems to have surpassed California as the deepest looney bin.


27 posted on 10/07/2014 9:01:36 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: DBrow

It is to isolate the children and make them more accepting of the government propaganda.


28 posted on 10/07/2014 9:02:44 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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“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?”


29 posted on 10/07/2014 9:04:08 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: NCjim

Many “educators” are completely fascist asses.


30 posted on 10/07/2014 9:04:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: NCjim

Big deal. This rule has been used in American institutions for years.

http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/rs3.htm


31 posted on 10/07/2014 9:10:09 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: NCjim

Humans are social animals, we talk to each other over meals because we can.


32 posted on 10/07/2014 9:10:17 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Thoery:)
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To: hal ogen

They dont want the kids talking amongst themselves about how much the school lunch sucks.


33 posted on 10/07/2014 9:11:15 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: NCjim
Is this what they've trying for?
34 posted on 10/07/2014 9:12:08 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: NCjim
"You vill be goot und quiet liddle pipples or ve vill show ze ovens to you!"


35 posted on 10/07/2014 9:14:07 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: NCjim

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.


36 posted on 10/07/2014 9:17:14 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: NCjim

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!!


37 posted on 10/07/2014 9:18:36 AM PDT by timlilje
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To: NCjim

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.


38 posted on 10/07/2014 9:19:07 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: NCjim

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.


39 posted on 10/07/2014 9:20:46 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When Amnesty was granted 30 years ago, they promised to close the borders and enforce the law)
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To: NCjim
Not much different then what you see here in this photo except the God is Love sign is banned today. Michelle obama lunch menu and some school administrator with a ruler up there....

40 posted on 10/07/2014 9:22:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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