endeavourphobic:

silverhawk:

silverhawk:

silverhawk:

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

i don’t remember what grade it was (middle school, either seventh or eighth grade) but our school had split lunches where two grades would have lunch at the same time (for example, grades four and eight would have lunch at the same time every day but would sit on opposite sides of our cafeteria).

anyways apparently at one point the lunchroom aides and teachers got fed up with the fact that like. 200 kids in a room at a time was loud? so one day we walked into the cafeteria and they had a stoplight. like red, yellow, green traffic stoplight.

if the noise level was “fine” then it was green, if it was getting loud it went yellow, and if it went red because it was too loud an alarm would go off and everyone would have to be silent. the “silent” time was between 2-5 minutes.

if kids talked when the light was red than they got detention/standing against a wall during recess, dependent on their age. and if the light went red and the alarm went off more than three times, than it was silent lunch for the rest of the period.

this post made me remember the light thing and how just like. terrified it made me lol as a kid with anxiety having to deal with an alarm going off everytime a room full of 200 kids got loud. lol

thinking back its really fucked up, actually