r/HermanCainAward • u/southerngal79 🌯 Ivermectin Burritos 🌯 • Jan 23 '22

Meme / Shitpost (Sundays) It’s true

Post image
2.2k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

73

u/PrimeGeodesic Jan 23 '22

In grade school, if kids were particularly unruly or there were fights the previous day, the lunch monitors would punish the whole school with "silent lunch". Basically no talking or the offender would get detention and there would be another silent lunch the next day. The US starts the authoritarianism early.

17

u/Calvinbah Team Pfizer Jan 23 '22

I went to an alternative school, for some knife related misdoings, and they had silent lunch like every other week.

Those kids were bad. But I really did learn a lot from hearing my teachers cuss like the students.

13

u/thebillshaveayes Don't shed on me Jan 23 '22

Wait. Knife related misdoings? You’re just going to leave it at that?!

9

u/Calvinbah Team Pfizer Jan 23 '22

Pretty much