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Will hug my principal
By BaylorMom

next time I see her! After reading these posts, I know that I'm very lucky. My school has hired four monitors for lunchroom duty. When things still get too rowdy, it's the principal or assistant principal who patrol the
lunchroom. We, too, have the duty-free lunch.

Two procedures that we have put in place in the past couple of years have significantly reduced our cafeteria uproar. One is a can, with green, yellow, and red clothespins clipped to it. If a class (or even one person in a class) is getting out of hand, the class loses a pin, which is dropped into the can. I think there are 2 green

and 2 yellow pins. If the class gets down to the red pin, there is a consequence (determined by the teacher) attached. It might be loss of some playtime, a privilege, etc. The other thing my principal has done is to seat entire classes all on the same side of our long lunch tables. The students they are facing are not in the same grade level. Our students also must sit in a boy-girl-boy-girl seating pattern, not the seat of their choice.