Detention

pinkshoes

Madmel wrote: »

I'm somewhat surprised at Pinkshoes' comment about teachers giving lifts home. In my school, we are warned not to give any student a lift unless there are two or more students in the car, they are your own children (or friends of your children) or it is an emergency and you have parental permission. Our cars have to have business use to be able to do this and the school needs a copy of our insurance certificate.

We phone the parents and get their permission and also let another member of staff know what is happening. The parents can collect them later from school if they prefer. Or we have a late bus.

Most parents are very supportive of the school and teachers, so it makes for a successful school with good results.

If the child was a known trouble maker then they would certainly not be offered a lift home.

pollypenny

Oh for a class of these perfect pupils!

I didn't meet one in 28 years. Did anyone else?

Red-Squirrel_2

pollypenny wrote: »

Oh for a class of these perfect pupils!

I didn't meet one in 28 years. Did anyone else?

Surely most kids are pretty nice, decent kids? Just as most adults are!

bunk_bed

suejb2 wrote: »

In my day ( there you have it I've turned into my mum) a detention was for being naughty: wagging school; smoking ; being rude; telling a teacher to 'do one'

Exactly right. It replaced the cane, for disciplining unruly children. It could also be used for when a child didn't do their work, or forgot to bring it in, but never for failing to get a certain grade.

Tammykitty

Spendless wrote: »

The homework was missing therefore my DD got a P7 (after school detention). She insisted she did it, it wasn't believed. I actually got a voicemail left saying that if my daughter was correct they'd have found it. I didn't get the voicemail as I was at work in an area of poor mobile signal. The homework was found handed in during the duration of the detention, they still refused to let my DD leave.

I've given up trying to get my head round what the school is doing. They just want to take every child, watch it all day long until they do something and then dish out a punishment. As I said on my first post on here I'm counting down the days till my daughter leaves (June 2019 :dance:)

That makes sense, as they have told you the parent, that the child will leave school at 5pm, they can't let them out at 4.30pm then unless they have your permission.


From what I remember, the parents needs to give permission for detention, and in some cases, they don't give the permission and there is nothing the school can do.


In my schools, some children used to get a ferry to school, and they were often exempted from Detention due to issues with the ferry, and they actually got to leave early quite often too, I think they were often given lunch time detention instead.

suejb2

To return to the OP: I have a colleague who thinks she can make students stay behind after school if they get below a certain percentage in tests. Our catchment area is large and rural and 80% of students arrive on dedicated school buses so they and their parents are furious. As their form tutor, I have heard the complaints from both the students and their parents. I also know that a number of them have serious issues going on at home (parental illness requiring them to take on a young carer role for instance) that means that they simply cannot stay. Expecting a 15 year old whose dad is having chemo that day to get above 75% in a test is grossly unfair to both the child and the parent. If your child is correct, I would complain to the school as this is ridiculous.

Yes, teachers do have bad days. I get cross with many of my irritating students on a regular basis. However, this has crossed a line for me and for the reasons above, needs bringing to the attention of management.[/QUOTE]

Madmel thank you for your thoughts I am erring on it being ridiculous, and I do want to go or write in. What I don't want is to cause my d.d any more angst it's a fine line ,again thank you.

pollypenny

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Surely most kids are pretty nice, decent kids? Just as most adults are!

Indeed they are. I loved the buzz of working with teenagers. However, there are those whose behaviour or work ethic is, shall we say, challenging.

IAmWales

suejb2 wrote: »

Madmel thank you for your thoughts I am erring on it being ridiculous, and I do want to go or write in. What I don't want is to cause my d.d any more angst it's a fine line ,again thank you.

Why not just call the teacher and ask? You would be ridiculous to pass judgment without checking the facts.

FBaby

I'm still confused as to whether OP's child was asked to stay behind for revision or punishment purposes?

Our school selects some children who under-perform to their target and are told to stay after school for extra tuition. Some teachers actually offer their time after school and many year 10/11 opt to stay for these revisions. Even more dedicated are the GCSE teachers who know that a colleague are dreadful, feel bad for the kids, and therefore create after school learning sessions for the kids who've asked them for it.

That's all very different to a detention which in my school is too punish bad behaviour. As stated though, these are handed to really make a point not to tick boxes.

balletshoes

IAmWales wrote: »

Why not just call the teacher and ask?

yep, thats what I would do, I would call the school and ask them for an explanation of what this detention was actually for.