Anonymous wrote:Go to one of these cafeterias with high ceilings and a packed space. It can be physically painful to the ears. Seriously.

My kid's ES lunchroom is deafening. I don't know how the lunch aids can stand it every day.

My kid's school (not private) did this in their Pre-k and K classes. It was to keep the kids on task so lunch didn't last too long. Never mentioned anything about choking, though. That's a new one.

As another PP stated, outside time came after lunch, so if they took too long eating then their recess time was cut short. They did have "time outs" for playing with their food or talking to friends during lunch. The time out equaled so many minutes that you had to sit beside the teacher at recess before you could go play.

Anonymous wrote:Why kids not talk they have been working all day and they can't talk at lunch. Stupid p

Has it occurred to you that there is a reason? Try walking into a cafeteria at lunch time. I don't like it either, but there are reasons.

Anonymous wrote:Go to one of these cafeterias with high ceilings and a packed space. It can be physically painful to the ears. Seriously.

My elementary school was like this. They put a stoplight on the stage. If the light was green, we were allowed to talk in normal conversational tones. If the light went to yellow, we were only supposed to whisper. If they still couldn't get us quieted down, they put the light on red and no talking at all was allowed.

This was another place, another time. There were no aides circling. Instead, our classroom teachers sat at the end of the tables and ate lunch with their class.

As an aside, on our way to lunch we were marched to the bathroom to give a bathroom break to anybody who might need it and to have everyone wash their hands. It seemed inconceivable to me when I moved here that kids didn't wash their hands before eating (especially going directly from recess on a goose poop covered playground to lunch).

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Anonymous wrote:Op didn't mention how old her child is, or what's the teacher child ratio during lunch.

Critical details, people.

Really? Pre-K is what - four years old? I don't LISTEN FOR MY CHILD TO CHOKE when she is eating with me. We talk, laugh, sing, etc.

. Shut up

Sexist!!!!!