Just one more reason to home-school

This one speaks for itself.

Eat at home or eat in silence, students told School’s principal calls it ‘a safety issue’

UNNATI GANDHI – From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

TORONTO — When Maureen Holloway’s seven-year-old son told her this month that pupils at his school were not allowed to talk during lunch, she didn’t believe him.

After all, she thought, socializing and lunchtime have always gone hand in hand.

But when Ms. Holloway went to talk to her son’s vice-principal, she was left, well, speechless.

“He gave me an absolutely shocking explanation. Yes, in fact, they have to be quiet. And not even just be quiet, they have to be silent. No talking whatsoever,” she said. “I was very alarmed, and to be honest, a little frightened.”

Unless you have severe and overriding situation that makes it impossible (and having both parents work so you can afford the second car, the waverunner, or all the tiers on cable don’t count as “overriding”) you need to do everything you can to get your kids out of government schools.

If your child’s school is so inherently unsafe that the children need to be kept absolutely silent as part of a safety campaign, that school needs to be shut down. Any parent that allowed their child to remain in that dangerous a school has some serious issues with their priorities.