Volume scale teaches kids how to turn down the noise

By Daniella Cherner, News Editor

COLONIAL SCHOOL — There is a new program at school called the Volume Scale. Teachers use this mainly at lunch, and not very often in the classroom, to quiet down the kids.

For instance, if a teacher says “keep your voice between a one and a three,” the kids should be talking between a whisper voice and a normal talking voice.

Many of the classrooms for younger children have signs up, and children are told to look at the signs or talk at a certain level voice. Teachers hope to achieve discipline in children at a young age so they will listen to the rules and talk at the level that the teachers say.

It’s up to the kids whether or not they want to listen.

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