What is so hard about not clapping at assembly?
Is it Ok to clap on Anzac Day, or in a quiet carriage on a suburban train?
Ridiculous analogy.
People do clap at assembly, it's one of the things you do at assemblies, they don't clap at those other events because it's not appropriate ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/facepalm.gif)
Now hundreds of people have to stop what was an ordinary, regular, and expected event just because one person can't deal with their issue some other way.
It's like I stop saying something or stop doing a regular thing in a video because one viewer has a problem with it, so everyone else has to miss out.
They're not analogies they're questions.
But ok you get to where I was going. When and where is behaviour appropriate?
My view is let the people who are actually involved decide this.
Sure it's fine to be critical of what they decided, but maybe we should behave appropriately too.
a. Get your facts right before you pass judgement.
b. Don't be rude if you don't have to.
c. Admit you were wrong if you did criticise these people without actually knowing what they did, or bothering to find their side of the story.
d. Suggest a better resolution to the issue, sure do nothing was probably the best option in this case.
ps. I guess why I am arcing up about this small issue is that I have had to sit through quite a few primary school assemblies in the past 10 years. This is at a school that sounds quite similar to this one.
The teachers there are nice, the people in the PC are nice though I never went to a meeting, the kids are not kowtowed, they are full of life and verve and it is a pleasure to here the sounds of them playing whenever I go there.
IMO overall they are doing a great job, though sometimes things do sound a little strange.
In this particular situation, my
guess is that the assembly hall is also a basket court/gym with hard surfaces and a painful sound resonance, so trying to keep the kids relatively quiet for the duration is in the majority's interest.