Remember Junior High Lunch? We sat their carefully choosing our food in fear of what might get stuck to our braces. Now, no one needs to worry about that anymore because none of the kids are looking up. They are all texting! Now you don't have to risk embarrassment since no one is looking at you. It turns out that our little suburb allows kids to take out their electronics at lunch and it turns out that they all have electronics and it turns out they all have better electronics then me. Now they can sit right across from each other, text a silly remark and nobody is the wiser. A quiet room filled with the sound of electronic beeps and plastic trays, but not the sound of voices. A perfect place for the subtle kind of bullying that happens when you don't have to say something out loud. Just a quick text to a friend about another child, a shared snicker and nobody is the wiser. Why are electronics allowed at lunch? I guess it is better than a food fight, or is it?

Kids are allowed to use electronics at lunch?! NYC has a confiscation policy - any teacher or staff who is aware that a student has a cell phone is required to confiscate it and contact parents for retrieval.
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