You have made some incorrect assumptions. Well it is Sunday, I just learned about this and my child was not present during the days the punishment was implemented. He was absent from lunch for 3 days, 2 doing a project in home room and 1 on a school tour for high school, and he does not know the reason the silent lunch was implemented, I’m not interested in getting preferential treatment for my child, I’m interested in knowing why the cafeteria can justify a blanket punishment on an entire grade and how this is acceptable on an administrative level. No other thing in life collectively strips a group of people of their ability to socialize with threat of punishment as a consequence of the behavior of a few.