school - detention - giving notice

pollypenny

I've never given an after-school detention. More trouble than it's worth.

Lunchtime and let the miscreant watch me eat my sandwich.

onomatopoeia99

pollypenny wrote: »

I've never given an after-school detention. More trouble than it's worth.

Lunchtime and let the miscreant watch me eat my sandwich.

Sit quietly in a warm classroom or stand in the playground for an hour?

Sign me up for detention.

System

The low down when my son was at school was that they didnt have to notify us or give us notice if it was only half an hours detention after school.

Anything over half an hour, the child had to be issued with a detention slip. Whether it was given to the parent was a different matter.

Piggywiggy

From what I remember there was usually a few days notice at my high school, after school detentions were on Wednesdays for an hour. This was a high school where many of the students were from the surrounding villages up to 8 miles away though so would need to be picked up by a parent. If you couldn't get home for whatever reason you got a few lunch time detentions instead, these were worse in my opinion, at least in an after school you can't hear everyone else having fun outside.

Shelldean

At son's school twenty minutes after school and no notification as given.
More serious offences were given an hour and this was notified by text to the parents.

marleyboy

heartbreak_star wrote: »

My school used to phone parents if the kids had detention. It would be carried out the same day.

HBS x

In my School days, the nearest phone to our house was a red box half a mile down the road, with a tiny probability of it still working. :eek:

pollypenny

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Sit quietly in a warm classroom or stand in the playground for an hour?

Sign me up for detention.

But they'll be missing their mates and having just ten minutes to eat the left overs in the canteen.

scooby088

pollypenny wrote: »

But they'll be missing their mates and having just ten minutes to eat the left overs in the canteen.

Unless they bring packed lunch and not allowing child to eat their lunch would open up another can of worms.

Spendless

scooby088 wrote: »

Unless they bring packed lunch and not allowing child to eat their lunch would open up another can of worms.

Actually this has happened to my DD, not with a detention but she was told she needed to catch up with her Art work and to work in lunchtimes, when teacher discovered that DD was on packed lnches, she got told to eat her lunch in the classroom. The following day DD went on school dinners.

System

We had permission slips

I only once got an after school detention (i forgot to hand my homework in even though i HAD actually done it), i went home in tears and remember my mum asking what wa wrong and me telling her i'd got an after school detention :rotfl: It felt like the end of the world to me! And never happened again. Annoyingly half the class go an after school detention but i was the only one who's parents wouldn;t write to them to get me off the hook :eek:

I think the school SHOULD give you notice, after all ho are you to know your child is safe when they don;t turn up when they are supposed to?