Poll of the Day > So is detention in school an actual thing?

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Detention is such a common thing you see in television shows or movies based in high schools, but in reality I never saw it happen to anyone? Not in the way the shows portray it at least. The shows portray it as having to eat your lunch in a detention room or having to stay longer after school. At my school there was in-school suspensions (never got one) but only the super bad kids ever got those. That was basically just kids going into a room DURING CLASS, not before or after. Also I think there were weekend suspensions as well, which might be the closest to detention but I only ever knew one person who got it.

I don't know what it's like nowadays, but yeah there were detentions when I went, after school, lunch, Saturday.

I had it back at school. I'd image it's still the same now as I see a small group of kids leaving school later than the others when passing.

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I don't know about after school, but certainly during school hours. Because of lawsuits and transportation issues nowadays, I'm not sure how many would do it after school rather than during normal hours.

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Zeus posted...

I don't know about after school, but certainly during school hours. Because of lawsuits and transportation issues nowadays, I'm not sure how many would do it after school rather than during normal hours.

Did stuff really change that much?

When I was in high school at least they basically said you were old enough to deal with it, and if you lived in the country your parents had to work something out. Period. No fucks given.

The detention teacher was a really nasty person too. I ended up with a UTI from her not only refusing to let me pee in detention (you had to go like right after school let out or you'd be locked out) and then following and threatening to call the cops if I went to the bathroom.

Believe it or not, I wasn't really a delinquent. I got detention for being late. After that I refused to go, and got in school for it. Guess what? In school was miles better than regular class. You basically got to just do your work, in peace, and eat lunch early.

Honestly I probably would have put a lot more in easier in those conditions. Oh well, gotta love teach to test. I was always good at tests. School was mostly boring and most of the useful stuff they always kept harping that we should have learned it in grade school.

Anyway tangent aside... Color me surprised.

ChaosAzeroth posted...

Believe it or not, I wasn't really a delinquent. I got detention for being late. After that I refused to go, and got in school for it. Guess what?

Similar thing happened to me. I had a few online classes in junior year and was in the office to meet with my counselor about my progress in them. She doesn't show so her secretary sends me back to the in-school suspension room, which had a row of computers that kids did online classes on.

Luck has it, the bell rings and the PA system calls for a random hall sweep where any students in the hall will be sent to the office for a citation. One hall monitor sees me and sees that I am leaving the office, so he lets me go. I get to the room's door and knock and another hall monitor comes running at me, demanding that I go to the office. I explain my story to him and he's just not having it. But I'm persistent and insisting that I do not have to go to the office, when I was just there, and was told I was fine.

I enter my class and this dude follows me in (the in-school suspension/online classes room was ALSO the hall monitor office) and is huffing up a storm about how I better get to the office or I'll get in huge trouble for disobeying. Me, the cocky junior in high school replies "What are you gonna do? Make me go to the office, where I just was, so that they can tell me I am going to get an in-school suspension, and just come right back here?". This makes him super flustered and he goes to the room teacher and starts bitching for an ungodly amount of time until the room teacher comes and tells me it might just be best if I go to the office.

I leave the room, go out in the hall, see the guy who initially sent me back to class. He asks "what are you doing out here?" I start to explain, barely getting two sentences in and he just says "Go back to class.".

Victory.

The school I teach at has a lunch detention program. If kids repeatedly miss deadlines or misbehave, they have to spend their lunch break completing their missing work (or, if for misbehaving, completing a favour for the teacher, like doing their photocopying or something).

When I was a kid, detention was after school. In high school, there was "Friday school", where you had to stay for 3 hours after school.

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

Did stuff really change that much?

When I was in high school at least they basically said you were old enough to deal with it, and if you lived in the country your parents had to work something out. Period. No fucks given.

The detention teacher was a really nasty person too. I ended up with a UTI from her not only refusing to let me pee in detention (you had to go like right after school let out or you'd be locked out) and then following and threatening to call the cops if I went to the bathroom.

Believe it or not, I wasn't really a delinquent. I got detention for being late. After that I refused to go, and got in school for it. Guess what? In school was miles better than regular class. You basically got to just do your work, in peace, and eat lunch early.

Honestly I probably would have put a lot more in easier in those conditions. Oh well, gotta love teach to test. I was always good at tests. School was mostly boring and most of the useful stuff they always kept harping that we should have learned it in grade school.

Anyway tangent aside... Color me surprised.

Lol I wish she had called the cops just so they could arrest Karen for wasting their time.
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Yes

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Yes, we had after school detention, 2 days a week as I recall, and Saturday detention.
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After school detention was definitely a thing at my school, probably and (hopefully) still is just for the lulz

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Revelation34 posted...

Lol I wish she had called the cops just so they could arrest Karen for wasting their time.

Yeah that's not what would have happened around here. Especially since she would have painted the situation much differently.

Who do you think they're going to believe in a small town? The teen oddball or the older lady who is a teacher?

I mean I didn't do anything and she was still trying to act like I'd done something huge to warrant it. Nothing specific, but all she'd have to do is make up some shit about feeling threatened and even if I wasn't directly escorted I'd likely have been threatened with action.

I absolutely did not want to deal with that.

My sister as a minor (different than one that lives here, youngest sibling) got a gun pulled on her and handcuffed along with like 3 other minors just for basically trespassing in an abandoned house.

Two of them used to live in that house. No one had lived in it for a while. No one lives there still actually. I think the bank foreclosed on it.

Like yeah it's illegal. I get taking action. They pointed a gun at someone no older than 13. Right off the bat. And apparently continued to do so after taking them outside. Multiple people have confirmed the outdoor part. She's always been someone to just shrug stuff off, and she was crying to the point of hyperventilating.

Yeah, but in school it was mainly ISS. In School Suspension. Which was basically detention. But there was detention that was either after school or on a Saturday. I got ISS once, and I think after school detention once.

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*Shrug* Yeah, I had detention when I was in school for having too many absences when I was a kid.

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I went to private school and their version of detention was having you stay an hour after school doing your studies. LOL

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Yeah, I got detention for a couple minor things. The worst thing I did was trying to take apart a microscope. Teacher didnt like that.

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