Did you ever have a giant stoplight in your lunchroom in school?

[Stepharoonie!]

I was talking with my bf yesterday, and I asked if he remembered the giant traffic stoplight they had in some schools. It was in the lunchroom, and if it was green, it was ok to talk. If it was yellow, you needed to quiet down. If it was red, you needed to be quiet, or else they'd send you to the principal's office.

What about you? Did you have one?

 

[joshsmom]

I can't believe you POSTED this!!! DS8 JUST got one put in his school LAST WEEK!!! Can you believe it???

 

[TooBoyz4us]

My kids old school didn't have a stop light, but the lunch monitors used the lights off method.That, and yelling at the top of their lungs " BE QUIET ", "NO TALKING" , "I SAID, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO TALKING".

It was ridiculous.

(Reason 192 why we now homeschool )

 

[TammyNC]

I understand that lunchrooms can get loud, but children are in the classrooms and have to be quiet there, then they have to be quiet while walking down the hall. I do think it is a shame that they have come to this type of things.

This isn't necessarily a reason why we homeschool, but I do enjoy letting my children talk and express themselves.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

No never heard of this.

When I first read the title to your thread I thought you said spot light and I was going to say no but if there was it felt like it was shining on me when I did something embarassing!

 

[thinkerbell]

We had one in the cafeteria where I used to teach and am going back to next year. I loved it. It does keep you from having to try to get louder than the kids to quieten them down. It is set so that if the noise gets too loud they have a rest period of about 5 minutes to remember that the noise level should be kept so that everyone can actually hear one another. The buzzer only goes off when it is TOO LOUD. There is only so much noise that one can tolerate and a big room of kids can get VERY LOUD. It doesn't keep them from talking if they can keep it to a tolerable level.

 

[chell]

Originally posted by edcrbnsoul
No never heard of this.

When I first read the title to your thread I thought you said spot light and I was going to say no but if there was it felt like it was shining on me when I did something embarassing!

I thought it said spot light too.

I went to way too many schools to remember who had what. That's kind of sad, isn't it?

 

[buzzlady]

I never had one when I was in school, but my DSs have one in their school. It's fairly new in their school and the first that I had ever heard of such a thing.

 

[kayeandjim00]

I had totally forgotten about it until I saw this thread but we did have one in Elementary School!

 

[Princess_Aurora]

It's been about 16 years, but yeah...I do remember the stoplight. I swear it wasn't controled by noise though. I still think the teachers had hidden buttons that they pushed to make it go to red whenever they just didn't want to hear us talk. I mean, the stupid thing would still be red even when we all stopped talking!!! How can that not be rigged???

I think I only got in trouble ONCE b/c of it. I think I had to write, "I will be quite when the red light is on." about a hundred times for my teacher. It sure did suck. I hated that thing!

 

[faithinkarma]

I attended a Catholic girls school. No need for a stop light there. The nuns had clickers. Anyone else remembe those? One short click and we all knew precisley what to do. The fact that we could even hear the click shows how quiet we were being to begin with.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I remember having one in elementary school. I don't remember anyone ever paying attention to it though.

 

[GlennandAnn]

My son's preschool has a stoplight in it for time out purposes. It's a giant stoplight, and each child has a clothespin with his/her name on it. If you're behaving fine, your clothespin is clipped to the green light. If you're cruising for a time out but just not there yet, you're on yellow. If you're in time out, you're on red. I had never heard of this before, and when he told me about it, I thought it was a great idea.

Ann

 

[cinmell]

No, I've never heard of that before.

 

[Talking Hands]

Have it at the elementary I sub at. My class' table always just continues to talk and never gets in trouble since we all sign and don't use our voices. The other classes are sometimes envious of that. The cafeteria can get very loud at times and the light is better than the cafeteria monitors screaming at everyone. I only stay of I am with the deaf kids since they do need someone to interpret if needed. At least one adult stays with them at lunch who can serve as interpreter. Poor kids sometimes have 4 adults to their 13 when all the adults decide they want to eat luch together.

 

[sha_lyn]

Never had anything like that in the schools I attended. In the last PS DS was in they had a Red, blue and green plastic cup stacked together at the end of each table. If the cup showing was green that table was OK. If yellow they had to be whisper. If red they had to be quiet.

 

[DemonLlama]

My kids' primary school (kindergarten and first) had this in the cafeteria. It was operated by the aides in the lunchroom to keep the noise level acceptable. Small kids very often do not have any conception of how loud they are being without some visual aid, and it seemed to work well on the times I visited for lunch.

 

[Towncrier]

Not when I went to school, but both kids had one in their lunchroom in elementary school. I had never heard of such a thing until they started attending school.

 

[luv2nascar]

never heard of it
sounds goofy
poor kids just not allowed to be kids anymore

 

[shamrock bunch]

I never had one growing up, but they have one at my DS's school.