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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Silent lunches???

Is this a victorian era workhouse? WTF is going on there?[/quote]

Group punishment. Terrible. Glum. [/quote]

Found the parent/troll with the disruptive kid.

Silent lunch is just a mild individual punishment used by many schools in lieu of, say, detention.[/quote]

This is not factual. The entire 7th grade was forced to have silent lunch at least a half a dozen times or more this year. [/quote]

+1 if it were an individual punishment in lieu of detention I wouldn’t be opposed to it.  But it was punishment for all kids and unfair to the well behaved kids.[/quote]

Hmmm... it feels like when you turn your kids over to people who's primary focus is paying down some of the massive debt they've incurred in developing their for-profit school network they might not actually have your kid's best interest in mind.[/quote]

oh please. my child's (good) dcps elementary did collective punishment all the time. it sucked. he lived through it. basis stops doing this after the first few years.[/quote]

and then what do they do? reduce gruel rations? Extra shifts at the oars?

My kid's (good) DCPS elementary school once sent an email home saying they would tell kids to be quiet in the lunch room if kids didn't stop being so raucous in the lunchroom... but grinding kids down with repeated silent lunches seems counter-productive to a good education. [/quote]

You have no kid at BASIS and believe what you read here from some aggrieved anonymous poster whose kid was disruptive and disciplined.

In fact, in our experience, BASIS is (remarkably) mostly free of the bullying, fights, and disruptions that plague other public middle schools and high schools in DC.  We are certainly grateful for that.[/quote]

+1.  There are weekly brawls at JR, Deal, and Hardy and you are complaining about silent lunch?  Wtf?[/quote]

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