{"id":379,"date":"2007-01-26T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/26\/sixteen-years-twelve-with-good-behavior\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:31:27","slug":"sixteen-years-twelve-with-good-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Years.  Twelve With Good Behavior."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockdowns.  Weapons checks.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2007\/01\/25\/D8MSJNO83.html\">Enforced dead silence at lunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How exactly is it that the traditional &#8220;sit your butt in your chair and learn what we tell you to learn, when we tell you to learn it&#8221; model of education isn&#8217;t the same as prison, again?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this week requiring students to remain silent while eating. The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt, but the principal of St. Rose of Lima School explained in a letter to parents that if the lunchroom is loud, staff members cannot hear a child choking.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Lamoureux, whose 12-year-old is a sixth-grader at the school, said she respects the safety issue but thinks the rule is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are silent all day,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They have to get some type of release.&#8221; She suggested quiet conversation be allowed during lunch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A better idea:  Have an assembly.  Tell the kids &#8220;if you see someone choking, yell at the top of your lungs SOMEBODY&#8217;S CHOKING&#8221;.  Better yet, show them how to deal with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another mother, Thina Paone, does not mind the silent lunches, noting that the cafeteria &#8220;can be very crazy&#8221; at the suburban school south of Providence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gosh, I have no idea why.  Being jammed into a seat for six hours, threatened with dire consequences for failing to suppress all that pent-up energy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the dumbest idea ever, but I can&#8217;t think of many worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockdowns. Weapons checks. Enforced dead silence at lunch. How exactly is it that the traditional &#8220;sit your butt in your chair and learn what we tell you to learn, when we tell you to learn it&#8221; model of education isn&#8217;t the same as prison, again? A Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}