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[quote=Anonymous]Oh gosh, yes we occasionally have to have silent lunches at our elementary school.

I'm a teacher and have to supervise 56 second graders, sometimes on my own, sometimes with another teacher, at lunch time.   Half the time they are in the cafeteria, another teacher is supervising a similar amount of K students, or two teachers are supervising a similar amount of grade 1 children.

We encourage the students to use good table manners, converse with their table mates, and eat their lunch so that they have energy for the rest of the school day.

But.... occasionally they get out of control, voices get loud, and start to rise even more loudly, especially when the next group of classes come in.    When it gets to a level where I can't hear a child standing right next to me ask a question, I tell the students that the next 5 minutes are "silent lunch".   Silent is a lot easier for kids to manage then quiet, at times, because silent is easy -- it means NO talking, no judgement needed about whether something is too loud.

We have never done an entire silent lunch though.  The longest it would last is 5-10 minutes.   Kids need time to talk to their friends.[/quote]

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