Yeah. Buy they don't need to be as loud as they are. I have worked with special needs kids who I need to communicate with during lunch, and sometimes it literally gets too loud to hear my students express their needs, or for me to give them an instruction.
We had this same lunch problem we had to have silent lunches not even a tiny cough then one kid had the that problem and go sent to the office for coughing this was a few years ago
Do u really support this name? Its bs, I had it and all the parents hated it because whenever they had lunch with the kids they never got to hangout and talk with all the kids and it was just annoying. It doesn't help anyone.
Gregor, your comment started in a good way, but I don't think autistic children would start attacking their students if they got triggered by a beep. I dó however, think they would be very distracted, maybe panick, possibly get a headache (overall, kids with autism have very sensitive hearing) and so, it could cause them to lose focus and get anxiety over the sudden loud noises.
lol the school that i was in that did this did not believe in point system just use it to shut kids to them if one kid loud everyone in the cafeteria get punished also they never use the yellow light which should tell you they never use any point system
Sophester Animates i don't understand. Now ur an adult i assume. Just go up to ppl and talk to them. U know the problem and how to fix it. Then why dont u? Serious question
@@squangelnutz762 that's the problem, socialization skills allow us to have the courage to speak to others and know what to say. Without socialization skills you may not know what to say and that may lead to a person becoming anxious to even speak to another person. If this skill isn't learned at a young age, some may not ever socialize
Yeah, in my school they have a retarded system called "sessling" and you have to talk/be partners with/sit with, people of different genders, race or grade (my class is 4/5) like, you know kids will complain because they can't be partners with their friends smh
Read the school rulebook which says the punishment: "Unplugging the noise control device shall bring automatic detention until 18 years of age, suspension of advancement in grade, and a $100,000 fine that shall be levied as a student loan"
For my school, we're not allowed to talk, stand or use the bathroom during lunch and we're not allowed to eat during our only recess. We have a 10-15 min lunch and a 15 min recess and that's it
cosmic subliminals my school is elementary and middle school but I'm in the middle school. Every year I went to my school, they started giving us less and less free time. We literally have 15 min to eat lunch even if it comes late before we go to our ten minute recess where we're not allowed to eat.
Exactly!! I used to have that in my school except the meanest teacher blew her damn whistle until it we were ALL quiet I'm just like JUST SAY WHATEVER YOU FUCKIN SAY!!
My old art teacher used to have this.. we all HATED it. Kids loved to trigger it by moving chair across the floor and it would go off and the teacher called it the “yacker tracker” 😂
what about the autistic kids? Aren't some of them sensitive to sound? And for the kids that they may have sensitive ears. Wouldn't they not like the sound? And it keep going off till they are quit may trigger the autistic kids even more. They may even yell to kids to try to make it stop which would make it even worse.
I actually agree with this. The light is so they don’t get too loud. It is quite annoying when you’re trying to eat or read during lunch and the kids at the other table is yelling when they’re right next to each other.
Something I've observed is how the volume changes throughout each age group. In elementary school you have a bunch of loud and lively kids who will talk to each other whenever the chance, though the older the age group, the quieter it gets. I remember witnessing a college class where there was five minutes before class started and no one said a thing to each other versus other schools where there would be talking before class. It's a slow process but we're being silenced.
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.” -Black Science Man
That happens at my school too. We can only talk for ten minutes at lunch, we have assinged seats, we are graded on behavior and they say we can get held back for it
At my school a couple of years ago we had this, and a group of boys were having a "screaming competition" to see who could turn the light red. They took it down a few days after😂😂😂
Ugh I had one of those things in the cafeteria. When it would hit red, we could not talk. The entire cafeteria had to be quiet or they'd give you detention I think. That was really it lol. They didn't have these unnecessary reward systems or punishments. Honestly, as bad as the traffic signal is, I can understand why they needed it though. It starts with one kid talking loudly and all of these voices coming together trying to talk over one another. It eventually gets too loud to the point where it sounds like shouting and that becomes a problem because if there's some kind of danger inside the school, the teachers can't alert students because it's too loud. That was elementary school. I remember in middle school we had to stand in a single file line in the hallway and no one could talk until we got to the cafeteria because the noise in the hallway would bother the other classrooms. It was pointless af because the hallways were by grade and we would have lunch by grade. Eight grade was all the way over on the right and sixth grade was that same exact distance to the left. The "noise" we would make would be extremely short-lived because we were walking to the cafeteria. So one time this male teacher was literally shouting down the hall at everyone to be quiet, which in and of itself made more noise than we ever did volume wise just walking, talking, and giggling. He would make us all sit down until we were quiet. A kid in front of me GULPED and the teacher yells "WHO DID THAT?!" Honestly, I think this man was taking his personal problems out on us. Eventually, they realized they can't just have us sit and be quiet every time because it would cut into our lunchtime and everyone had to eat. The entire charade was basically a control thing.
it’s in the cafeteria, that’s the only time of the day where you can eat and talk to your friends at school and teachers wonder why everyone hates them
I actually agree with this. The light is so they don’t get too loud. It is quite annoying when you’re trying to eat or read during lunch and the kids at the other table is yelling when they’re right next to each other.
@@Aviciifi Yea, but they don’t need to be screaming either. I feel like it should still be a person monitoring a cafeteria instead of a traffic light since it doesn’t make sense to then punish everybody for a few ppl screaming
@@Adventurer-te8fl 99% of the time they aren’t screaming. It’s just when you put over 100 five year olds in a room it’s naturally going to be loud because all of the talking will sound like screaming but it really isn’t. If there’s kids shouting then sure, take action but it’s most likely 1 or 2 kids.
I had this in my elementary school and honestly the stop light only did it when it REALLY was too loud. I appreciated it as someone who's been suffering with misophonia all my life.
kids are suppose to be loud, forcing them to be quiet during class for hours at a time is one thing but recess and lunch is the time there allowed to be loud and rowdy! why are we taking that away from kids? why punish kids when whole groups doubt do what they are told? some kids will always be quiet but then they get stuck with loud kids? they will never get q chance for the "reward". not to mention its a sound very similar to a fire alarm and many might get scared or panicked, why stress kids out that have so much on their shoulders? let kids be fucking kids
t raven if I had that in my first grade class or something I would probably scream more from the sound of the beep. I have anxiety disorder and as a kid I used to hate loud sudden noises that wouldn't stop, I was afraid of the car alarm for that reason. It's funny cause my first grade class had a light system but it was cut out pieces of colored paper and they were given to individual students; yellow meant your acting up and need to calm down, and red meant you were getting a call home.
+Délètëd At my old elementary school they used to flick the the lights on and off really fast (which could cause a fire) and then a teacher/cafeteria person yells for us to be quiet.
Ember chan They're kids, as long as you called it an reward they'd be happy about it. These are legit the same kids who'd cry if they have to move their clip on the "behavior chart" down.
They are children. They are expected to sit still without talking or playing and making jokes for 8 hours a day and then are expected to come home and do hours of homework. THEY ARE CHILDREN. They are meant to have fun and enjoy childhood not sit and be silent.
Brenda, there's a difference between commotion and a loud startling noise. Noises like that resemble a scream and we instinctually become alerted by it, people with sensory issues would definitely have issues with it.
Josie Alyvia odds are it's set high enough that the noise from the other kids in the cafeteria would cause problems for autistic children long before this siren even started going off.
I never understood why in elementary school they said to quiet down at lunch. Lmao thats supposed to be our freetime. High school was just as loud and they dont say nothing. I DONT GET IT!!!
Also, wouldn't it be great if school taught useful shit, like the Heimlich maneuver instead whatever useless facts they're cramming the curriculum with
I had one of those in my middle school, but I swear it just sets itself off. We could be loud as hell and the thing stayed green, but sometimes when we were quiet it would go to red. Didn't matter anyways, we could barely hear the alarm.
We used to have these back in elementary and middle school. They were idiotic. The design is terrible, and it picks up noise in odd fluctuations, so it can go red even when it is rather quiet in the room. And aside from that, lunchtime is the time specifically for socializing. Some of these rules are downright nonsensical.
What if they're just getting a head-start on the following night's homework? That might not be something you perceive people doing, but there are those students. Just because people are working through lunch doesn't automatically mean they were being negligent.
Pizza Poosta (August) I always did my homework at lunch, during free time in class, and before school since I had responsibilities in the evening. Some people aren't able to get work done at home. It doesn't mean they were being irresponsible.
I am in 7th grade, our school had this light and we protested, no joke, we put up petitions, got 460 signatures, and when the teachers tried to confiscate them, we put up posters saying that we had the right to peaceful protest, they took the light down after 3 weeks
Fabulous Radish the sensitivity was the problem, it stopped kids from talking during our only time to talk to our friends during school, the sensitivity would make it go off every 7 seconds
I remember having this in my cafeteria at my elementary school, and I remember during summer school one day it kept going off easily and ig the principal could hear it every time and I remember watching him turn the sensitivity down with what looked like a really small pocket knife, i was glad he turned it down, that was probably like 7 years ago so I don't know if they have the light there anymore
My elementary school would literally make us have “quiet lunch” when they felt we were getting too loud. Imagine telling 300 kids they’re talking too loud and making them sit in silence during their lunch break.
+Gameze And friends from my school hears what would happen *light gose off* every kid *screaming* turn that shit off ass holes! *one kid walks up pulls plug*
Reminds me of a time when at lunch we all got to sing happy birthday for a teacher/worker and of course being young ones we freaked out at the end and banged on tables, yelled and all had a good laugh, I nearly died laughing seeing it all go down, then after that the principal got on the mic and said how she was so disappointed in us for freaking out like that and how bad that was 🙄 we were freaking little kids of course we're going freak out when singing and wanting to have a good time. (Thank god we didn't have this thing around, we would of probably caused the thing to explode XD)
We had this in both elementary schools I went to, that was 14 years ago. Never bothered me, in fact we usually just kept talking because no one could hear that beep
agreed. i have anxiety, but this thing i would just rip off the wall and smash with a baseball bat because it sounds so loud and annoying. it will save the others from it, so why not get into a little trouble?
We had this when I was in elementary school back in the early 90s. If they don't like the beep then shut up and it won't go off. Ours made a series of beeps when it turned yellow to warn us. If we quieted down it would stop and if we didn't it would turn red.
Are you kidding me? Lunch is the one time where kids can and should be loud. I can understand if theyre screaming but this seems like an infringement on basic human rights.
My school did the same thing back in 5th grade like 7 years ago and I loved it becuase no one would ever shut up and it would never stop going off and it was nonstop laughter for me while the teacher just stood there with a blank face.
I remember having a siren like this back in elementary. I don't think it did much, though. People were really talkative every day, and my school eventually got rid of the siren.
My old elements school would blow a fucking horn and say that were quote not acting in restraunt behavior even when we are at the same level, That school freaking sucked schools don't teach you anything but to obay and to fear a higher power. That is why this assholes do this.
my elementary school had one too in middle school we used a website called bouncy balls there would be balls bouncing around on the smart board, the louder it was the higher they went if they got too high the screen would say quiet down, but it didn't actually beep or anything so kids would stomp or get really close to the mic on our teacher's laptop to get them to move more
I had this in my elementary school in the early 00s. We got warnings before the teachers flipped the switch manually. It's to teach indoor and outdoor voices, which some kids don't have.
Thanks news you gave our school that idea now at lunch we can’t speak or we gotta sit by rows in classes.......... god damn it thanks comments I’m gonna go use some of the stuff you said to get us our freedom to speak at lunch back..
At what decibel point does this reach....if it is high enough it will damage a persons hearing, the school could be legally liable for anyone's loss of hearing.
Denny II Unless it's a constant drone, it has to be incredibly loud to damage hearing. Like much louder. We're talking concert level noises, and that short beep is nowhere near it.
Knuxiefan when I say it has to be a sustained noise, that means around 30 minutes, not 5 or 10 seconds. Also, all the statements say that it works and the kids quiet down when they hear it, so it's never going to be sounding for more than maybe 3 seconds at a time. Point is, this *will not* cause hearing damage, the worst possible thing it could do is startle some especially sensetive students occasionally.
Y’all don’t understand, when the entire lunchroom is talking at a normal volume, some kids will talk louder to be heard more easily. Then soon everyone has to talk loud to be heard. The cycle continues, until everyone is *screaming* to be heard. You can’t just let the kids talk as loud as they want.
That beep is nothing in comparison to the fire alarm. The one at where I went to school, it could deafen you if you stood right under one of the sounder speakers it’s that loud. It is about as loud as a city’s air raid sirens if not louder.
It’s a cafeteria let them talk during lunch. When I was in elementary school they told us that lunch was the one time during the day when we could be loud
i had one of those and we would see how many times we could get it to go off in a day. our record was 14 (in about 30 minutes) and the light lasted a week
