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In our elementary school cafeteria, we had a large traffic light that was sound activated. Reasonable noise levels were green, but if we got too loud it would
by dillonmckay 6y ago
In our elementary school cafeteria, we had a large traffic light that was sound activated.
Reasonable noise levels were green, but if we got too loud it would turn yellow to warn us to quiet down, but if it turned red, it would make a loud buzzing alert, and we were not allowed to speak during the red light.
If you did speak during a red light, you were written a ‘ticket’, and would not be going to recess that afternoon.
It would turn back to green after a specified time.
- 1_player 6y agoThat sounds incredibly dystopian. I hate it.
- snazz 6y agoDoes it? I much prefer an objective measure of volume instead of a school staff member just writing individual kids up for being subjectively too loud---the machine should have much less bias.
- randomchars 6y agoWhy do they need to be quiet? This is in a cafeteria, not in a classroom.
- snazz 6y agoI remember the elementary and middle school cafeterias being host to an occasional screaming match, so I can see why they would want to keep it at a reasonable volume. It might be a little over the top to have the traffic light thing, but it's better than the subjective alternative.
- UncleSlacky 6y agoWe had a traffic light system as well, but I think it was controlled manually by a staff member, and there wasn't any penalty when it was red. It didn't last long.
- brtkdotse 6y agoMinus the "ticket", the same traffic light is in every kindergarten in Sweden, as well as a majority of public spaces.