Silent lunch - happening at other schools?

[Anonymous]

My kids had this last year, so the 2020-21 school year. They’ve been allowed to talk this year, thankfully.

[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.

The F? I’d pull my kids ASAP. Abusive.

[Anonymous]

Ours has the first 10 minutes silent so that they actually eat something. No big deal. This has been the policy for years.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Yes, DC area (PG county based school). Silent lunch is a COVID protocol I'd consider too harsh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours has the first 10 minutes silent so that they actually eat something. No big deal. This has been the policy for years.

Same here. My kid is super social, and will visit and forget to eat. Quiet time at the beginning of lunch is brilliant for her.

[Anonymous]

Gds Pk-8 has had no talking silent lunches for 15 months+ now.

[Anonymous]

Not at all in our MD private. Although I'd be happy for some quiet time at lunch.

[Anonymous]

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

Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The F? I’d pull my kids ASAP. Abusive.

Thanks for letting us know you don’t know what “abusive” means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The F? I’d pull my kids ASAP. Abusive.

Thanks for letting us know you don’t know what “abusive” means.

If you’re ok with forcing kids to eat in silence then good luck to your kids.

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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?

I’ve had 2 kids in public school. This tracks. Lunch is a bad mix of hunger games, lord of the flies, and supermarket sweep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gds Pk-8 has had no talking silent lunches for 15 months+ now.

Ummmmmm no not for the past couple months

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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.

Its not paranoia. Its the fact that you must miss school for 5-10 days if you are the one of the unlucky ones who test positive. I don't want my kid missing school for 1-2 weeks--its too hard to catch up. Is it a coincidence that so many kids tested positive the week after masks were lifted. I don't think so. Whatever the belief on masks, I certainly hope people are pro having kids in school and not zooming in. Masks at least allowed that to happen for the past 8 months. Now we are back to zoomerang. so lovely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Its not paranoia. Its the fact that you must miss school for 5-10 days if you are the one of the unlucky ones who test positive. I don't want my kid missing school for 1-2 weeks--its too hard to catch up. Is it a coincidence that so many kids tested positive the week after masks were lifted. I don't think so. Whatever the belief on masks, I certainly hope people are pro having kids in school and not zooming in. Masks at least allowed that to happen for the past 8 months. Now we are back to zoomerang. so lovely.

We've kept our kids in virtual and its been fine. However, we are all sick now and its been in our house for over three weeks now cycling between all of us. Selfish people suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Its not paranoia. Its the fact that you must miss school for 5-10 days if you are the one of the unlucky ones who test positive. I don't want my kid missing school for 1-2 weeks--its too hard to catch up. Is it a coincidence that so many kids tested positive the week after masks were lifted. I don't think so. Whatever the belief on masks, I certainly hope people are pro having kids in school and not zooming in. Masks at least allowed that to happen for the past 8 months. Now we are back to zoomerang. so lovely.

We've kept our kids in virtual and its been fine. However, we are all sick now and its been in our house for over three weeks now cycling between all of us. Selfish people suck.

People get sick. Stop blaming others for your lack of an immune system. You need to be exposed to stuff to build it up. We stopped washing our hands and using sanitizer long ago. My kids got a few bugs, but haven't had covid yet. Stopped wearing masks long ago too. We're all vaccinated too, but if I had young children not yet vaccinated, at this stage I would not bother. The variant out there is harmless.