John Baptist de La Salle: The Spirituality of Christian Education by John Baptist de La Salle

Author:John Baptist de La Salle [Salle, John Baptist de La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2011-10-22T00:14:00+00:00

BREAKFAST AND AFTERNOON SNACK

ARTICLE 1:

Teacher Attention During Breakfast and Afternoon Snack

Teachers should take care that the students bring their breakfast and afternoon snack with them every day. A little basket will be set in an appointed place in the classroom, into which the children when they are so piously inclined may put what bread they have left over to be distributed among those of them who are poor. Teachers will see that they do not give away any of their bread unless they have enough left for themselves. Those who have bread to give will raise their hands, showing at the same time the piece of bread that they have to give, and a student who has been appointed to receive these alms will collect them. At the end of the meal the teacher will distribute the bread to the poorest and will exhort them to pray to God for their benefactors.

Teachers will also take care that students do not throw either nuts or shells on the floor but will have them put them into their pockets or into their bags.

Students must be made to understand that it is desirable that they eat in school in order to teach them to eat with propriety, with decorum, and in a polite manner, and to invoke God before and after eating.

Teachers will see that the students do not play during breakfast and the afternoon snack but that they be very attentive to what is being done in school during this time. In order to discover whether they are exact in this, teachers will from time to time make one of them repeat what has been said, with the exception of those who are occupied in writing.

Students will not be permitted either to give anything whatsoever to one another, not even any part of their breakfast, or to exchange it.

Teachers will see to it that the students finish breakfast by 8:30, or as near as possible.

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