silent lunches were so….weird. like the entire cafeteria was expected to be quiet and it usually was a punishment for something super dumb tbh like i remember a bunch of kids popped plastic bags one day so we got silent lunch for a week and everyone was just….sitting there all quiet. it was duuuumb
the only funny part tho was sitting around ur friends and all of u trying VERY VERY HARD not to laugh when someone makes a face or something like that, or trying to sneak into the bathroom so u can talk…even then tho fuck silent lunches
ppl keep going “what the FUCK is a silent lunch why would schools have that” and im like. genuinely so forgetful abt the fact that silent lunches are one of those american public school things that literally dont make any sense
we didn’t have “silent” lunches per se, but my elementary school cafeteria had this thing hanging over the door which looked like a stop light. it was green normally and if the noise level got to a certain point it would turn yellow, and if it got even louder it would turn red and make the worst fucking buzzing noise you’ve ever heard. since recess was immediately after lunch, for every time the red buzzer went off, we’d get 5 minutes of recess taken away.
That sounds fucking dystopian
Is there anything about the US at this point that doesnt sound dystopian?
If we didn’t shut up our teacher would wait to take us to lunch. We once got there like 20 minutes late.
my school was too small and too fucking poor we either sat with no more than 45 small children, screaming at each other, or the mean secretary and/or the principle (who is also the superintendent) would come to scold us, it would be deadly quiet for a few minutes, then the saviors known as the class clowns would save us from that awkward thick tension you could slice with a butter knife
I never had a silent lunch, but I remember someone pissed off the sub and the next day at gym class the actual teacher made all of us write an apology and walk the whole gym period in silence.
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