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

Silent lunches are rarely used and only used when a particular grade has been excessively unruly during lunch. Silent lunches are certainly not the norm at all and I support the use of them when needed as a last resort.[/quote]

Wow - how bad can it be if you have to have "Silent Lunch"?  I don't know exactly what that is, but the name is pretty descriptive.  My HS of 2,000 students never had (nor needed) such a thing.  What is going wrong at Basis for this particular punishment to be instituted?  Is the next step orange jumpsuits or leg irons?[/quote]

I thought that was KIPP or do they just expel them lol

the problem with this type of discipline is that it is universally applied, so everyone gets treated like a miscreant

in your high school of 2,000 if there were a problem at a particular table or among an identifiable group of students, I would imagine that proctors or a teacher or Dean would be called to remove and/or punish the guilty students - but to get to the heart of the matter first.  Now if no one accepts responsibility for the initial provocation, it seems reasonable to punish the entire group if one can identify them......

depending on the size, you can give an entire class detention and it is probably better not to single out the few kids who were behaving well lest they be stigmatized

I understand in 5th, kind of, because it is a lottery admission, and if you want to stereotype, it is a Title I school, and kids do come from everywhere,

but the cafeteria is not that large, and last year the kids having all the silent lunches were in 6th.  That really surprised me.  What did they miss in 5th grade about what constitutes proper decorum in a lunch room?  Do you really think they will stay after 8th?  Was it really necessary to do this to an entire grade of how many kids?

The rules are draconian, and unless one examines the reason behind the rule to see if its application would further the purpose it is designed to serve before universally applying it, that is when kids start feeling that the school does not like them and does not want to keep them.  Rules are rules only goes so far.

"I'm sorry I'm late but I tripped and fell down the stairs - or someone pushed me down them."  Do you get a tardy?[/quote]

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