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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's not "what's going wrong at Basis" - it's more about what WAS going wrong in k-4&5 in the schools that these kids came from, where [b]in DCPS[/b], apparently anything goes, where kids are evidently used to running around in class,  talking, disrupting, being tardy, wandering halls without passes, trashing school property, and so on - behavior that Basis wants to curb (imagine that), and which has actually been going rather welll this year. Our kid is happier with less disruptions this year.  He learned a lot last year and it's going even better this year.   As for "orange jumpsuits and leg irons" that's ridiculously over-the-top hyperbole.  At dropoff and pickup it's a scene of lots of happy kids.  Is every kid, every family happy?  No. But that's the case with EVERY school in DC. There's no one school ANYWHERE that meets every need perfectly. [/quote]

Careful with your over generalizations. [/quote]

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