First no playing tag, now this?

[Ex-MA Hole]

Wow.

Just wow.

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO41235/

WARWICK, R.I. -- A new lunchtime rule at a Catholic school in Warwick. Talking is now banned.

The principal of the Saint Rose of Lima School banned talking at lunch after three students choked in the cafeteria.

A spokesman for the Providence Diocese says the school is enacting a temporary safety measure.

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[mgdavis]

Flashing back to Basic Training.

[BakerMikeRomeo]

When I was in sixth grade, my teacher forbade us to speak at lunch because there was a classroom attached to the lunchroom, and the wall between them was exceptionally thin (I discovered this when I had History in that room in seventh and eighth grades...). How is no talking a "safety" measure?

~GnSx

[mgdavis]

People take big mouthfuls of food, then try to talk and wind up inhaling big chunks of partially-chewed food-stuffs. Kinda like how some people can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Fly320s]

Solution!!

Only gruel will be served from now on.

It's for the chidlren.