Silent lunch - happening at other schools?

[Anonymous]

Is your child's school still doing this? Ours are outside when possible (which has been quite a lot this year, and is a different concern) but when inside they must remain silent while eating. This is a K-8 environment with most kids vaccinated.

In addition, the school has reinstated masks, is still doing desk wipes at the end of each class, hand sanitizer several times a day, and limiting interactions by grade level (indoors and out). It feels to me like this school is in last place when it comes to post-COVID return to "normal." My kids are tired of this, and I am worried about it.

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard of zero schools doing this

[Anonymous]

I wish our private still had masks. They lifted the mask mandate and limited the testing and bam--multiple kids with covid and now kids are missing class again for 5-10 days at a time.

They should have just kept the mask going for the final two months--and the ongoing testing.

Did it really save us anything? Summer is coming soon enough and all will be mask free and outside.

The kids could have coped with another 8 weeks and we would have avoided a lot of covid cases and missed classtime.

lunch can easily be outside. I have no idea why they can't talk at your school- that seems weird.

[Anonymous]

Wow, that's excellent. Which school?
I'm impressed.

[Anonymous]

Our school does silent lunch but it’s so the children eat and unwind and aren’t distracted. They listen to music, or an audiobook or podcast during lunch. K-8 has recess and can talk then.

[Anonymous]

My sister’s private, which is filled with doctors kids, does silent lunch.

[Anonymous]

Silent lunch??? So glad my kid is in a public school. Lunch is a time to socialize and build connections with peers. And they can now do it face to face. Didn’t anyone learned anything in the pandemic?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silent lunch??? So glad my kid is in a public school. Lunch is a time to socialize and build connections with peers. And they can now do it face to face. Didn’t anyone learned anything in the pandemic?!?

My kids are in public and would LOVE a silent lunch, because the din is just outrageous (we've been through an elementary, a CES center, a middle school and a high school). They come home from school exhausted from the noise.

[Anonymous]

Masks are for losers! get over this. Especially for healthy kids.

[Anonymous]

Masking and wiping down desks is a good thing. The lunches is absurd. There are lots of other things beyond covid going around so wiping desks and shared objects should always happen regardless of covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish our private still had masks. They lifted the mask mandate and limited the testing and bam--multiple kids with covid and now kids are missing class again for 5-10 days at a time.

They should have just kept the mask going for the final two months--and the ongoing testing.

Did it really save us anything? Summer is coming soon enough and all will be mask free and outside.

The kids could have coped with another 8 weeks and we would have avoided a lot of covid cases and missed classtime.

lunch can easily be outside. I have no idea why they can't talk at your school- that seems weird.

What is the issue with Covid cases for kids? They have no real risk. Life is one big risk. Don't take the joy out of it with your paranoia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Masks are for losers! get over this. Especially for healthy kids.

Kids who are getting sick or covid aren't healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school does silent lunch but it’s so the children eat and unwind and aren’t distracted. They listen to music, or an audiobook or podcast during lunch. K-8 has recess and can talk then.

God forbid they socialize and eat at the same time. Turn them into zombies with technology. What ever happened to freedom, people! Natural consequences for those who talk too much and don’t finish their lunch! That is how kids learn self- management!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silent lunch??? So glad my kid is in a public school. Lunch is a time to socialize and build connections with peers. And they can now do it face to face. Didn’t anyone learned anything in the pandemic?!?

My kids are in public and would LOVE a silent lunch, because the din is just outrageous (we've been through an elementary, a CES center, a middle school and a high school). They come home from school exhausted from the noise.

Out of a 6.75 hour day, 30 minutes is spent in lunch. You’re saying that 30 minutes is the source of this exhaustion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your child's school still doing this? Ours are outside when possible (which has been quite a lot this year, and is a different concern) but when inside they must remain silent while eating. This is a K-8 environment with most kids vaccinated.

In addition, the school has reinstated masks, is still doing desk wipes at the end of each class, hand sanitizer several times a day, and limiting interactions by grade level (indoors and out). It feels to me like this school is in last place when it comes to post-COVID return to "normal." My kids are tired of this, and I am worried about it.

Hi, OP. Are you in the D.C. area?