A place to chat about your afterschool school detention, why you got it for, what punishments did you do, for example write lines, face the wall etc, how long was the detention for and what did your parents have to say about it. ...
4/24/2007 7:11 PM
Liselle wrote:
Well i had a detention where i had to write out lines wot hurt my hand, so my dad went and shouted at the teacher who aploigiysed to me.
He also told me to find out what detentions is legal wot is why i found dis site. Reply to this
4/25/2007 11:05 AM
NaughtyBoy wrote:
Detentions are legal, they can be given it is usually a policy of the school, there is no law saying it is not illegal, they actually have weekend detentions now, where you can be submitted into a special weekend school it is run by the NSW state government. Writing lines, is also a standard punishment, it is the whole point of being punished, it is not supposed to be comfortable. Reply to this
4/26/2008 12:29 PM
LEAPERSON wrote:
Detention is legal for sure if the pupil stays to avoid exclusion. The position is not so clear on physically enforced detention. If a pupil refused detention, the school would normally allow him or her to leave, and substitute a temporary or permanent exclusion. This does not mean they get time off, but that they have to go through the hassle of attending a new school, for a few days, weeks or permanently. Obviously this means that in theory, adult university students could be detained under threat of expulsion. Common sense means that this does not happen; although I have heard of a 21 year old female at a Baptist University in the American Bible belt having to write a 2000 word essay for having booze in her room. She was an English student doing a one term exchange in her final year of a Business Studies Course, and is known to me personally. This was 12 or 12 years ago. Reply to this
5/21/2007 4:31 PM
Mike wrote:
Interesting story, would like to see more. I was never really bad in school, however, I once agreed to a similar "punishwork" with a girlfriend of mine and I had to write lines.
Also, there is a Yahoo club called "Written Punishments" were lines are assigned to those who misbehave. In addition there is FOW group (Fond of Writing) where there is a typing program for typing punishwork. It's very interesting. Reply to this
10/23/2007 10:05 PM
Kayleigh wrote:
i was put in afterschool detention, for 2 hours and had to write lines, my hand hurt. After 1 hour of detention, the cleaners came and cleaned the detention room. I left and went home after 2 hours. Reply to this
10/28/2007 9:51 PM
kayleigh wrote:
Does anyone out there think a 2hr after school detention is the correct punishment for not handing in homework? I had to write out lines 500 times which took forever. and also my hand hurt for days afterwards.
my parents think 2 hours is a long time and would be better split into 2 weeks? and writing lines is not very productive.
Also the cleaners at school can into the room and cleaned the floor, desks etc.... while i was sat there writing lines!
12/21/2007 2:46 AM
Speedster wrote:
Your parents are turning you into a wimp. I think 2 hours detention is fine for what you did. If you don't like it, hand in your homework next time. As far as the cleaners coming into the room while you sat there, so what? I did janitorial duty a few times when I had detentions, so just be glad you were only writing the lines, and not doing the cleaning. Reply to this
12/21/2007 2:49 AM
Speedster wrote:
What do you guys think the worst type of detention is? I experienced several types: -Just sitting there, awake, head up, for a long time doing nothing -Being allowed to do homework or even sleep, so long as we didn't get up or make noise -Writing lines -Doing work details
The worst was just sitting there doing nothing. Time passed so slowly. At least with doing work details, there was something to take your mind off the slowly ticking clock. Getting to sleep or do homework was the best (and least effective) detention. I really didn't mind those too much unless I actually had to be somewhere that afternoon. Reply to this
6/19/2008 6:46 AM
Al wrote:
I agree. The worst detention was sitting there with nothing to do but listen to the ticking of the clock. We had a couple of teachers who would make you sit with your arms folded, looking straight ahead, in total silence. Any fidgeting and you'd get a whack with the cane and another five minutes. It was soooo boring and, as a punishment, very effective! Reply to this
4/29/2008 10:48 AM
ryan wrote:
I have to write the phrase "disrespectful- characterized by having or showing disrespect" 2000 times. I have a broken pinky finger which makes it harder to write too. I got detention until the end of the year also. What did I do? I just said can I have a detention as a joke and guess what? I did. f*** That a**hole then gave a speech about how disrespectful I was and he said just other bullsh*t. Stuff like "Do you want to die? Are you out of your freakin' mind!?" Just sh*t like that. I'd rather get my a$$ whipped then do this sh*t Reply to this
1/26/2009 11:06 AM
Helena wrote:
I think its quite scary that an overstrick punishment may have this effect on the students, if the punismnt largely outwights the crime, you get angry students, who decide, why should i bother!!! Reply to this
5/6/2008 6:00 PM
Chris wrote:
I got loads of after school detentions usually for 2 hours and a good few weekenders. Weekend is probably the vest deterrant and should be brought back. You had to wear full school uniform - blazer, shirt & tie (plenty of stick from the other kids, maximum embarassment!) My punishments usually included lines of mental arithmatic. My crimes usually failing to submit homework or not wearing uniform correctly. Swearing to the teachers once resulted in 3 weekend detentions. I think it tought me to become more disciplined and respectful which is badly lacking in schools today. I don't agree with corpral punishment, but extended use of detentions would work, it made me think twice. Reply to this
6/7/2008 11:46 AMChris wrote:
Re above vest deterrant should read best deterrant. Obviously should ave done spelling in detention!! Reply to this
5/8/2008 8:49 PM
Rupert wrote:
Among the two detentions I ever had in my school years, the nastiest was to learn by heart a two-page French poem by La Fontaine (I was in a French school) whose style is as difficult as Shakespear's. I had one hour of detention. But the headmaster told me that I would continue learning it at home and that the next day, I had to come to his office and recite it to him before going to classes. It was for climbing over the gate to get into the school grounds because the envigilator was late in coming to unlock the gates for us. That was my punishment for not arriving late to a lesson. Had I waited for the envigilator and arrived late for my lesson, the teacher would have simply scolded me. Well, I did my punishment and the headmaster suddenly became much nicer. Since I was usually well behaved, this is my nastiest punishment from my school days. Reply to this
6/19/2008 6:39 AM
Al wrote:
Our after school detention classes were usually 30 minutes and sometimes you were given double detention and would be there for an hour. An individual teacher detention where you would have to report to a specific teacher after school and be supervised by them tended to be an abitrary length and was usually given because the teacher wanted to deal with something specific rather than the sort of general misbehavior that might be committed in class. In the general detention class boys were just expected to sit and get on with some schoolwork or write lines if that's what they'd been told to do. The teacher supervising the class woudl call the detention register and then usually sit and do some work. Any boy who spoke or appeared not to be working was usually given the cane or slipper. If you were given detention with a specific teacher the detention would normally be a time in which the teacher would punish you for something. The punishment might be lines or corner time and would usually involve at some point, some degree of corporal punishment too. Perhaps a caning or a spanking for younger boys. Some teachers would give you a long telling off with alot of smacks. Reply to this
7/23/2008 3:59 PM
nathan wrote:
i got detention for tardies to class and all we do in my school is sit quietly and do whatever i didnt think detention were this bad in other places Reply to this
9/3/2008 9:34 AM
bloodbutterflies wrote:
my school only gave 15 minute long detentions. kind of pointless really.
i'd like to have been in a long strict detention, even just once, to know what it's like sitting for hours in full uniform writing lines. or even more, saturday detention. having the long punishment, as well as having to wear uniform on saturday Reply to this
9/16/2008 6:10 PMChris wrote:
Yeah I think just to experience the longer detentions is something most kids would actually like. In a way i actually enjoyed saturday detention even though it was definetly unpleasant it was a case of taking your punishment like a man which of course you learn from - good bit of discipline. And of course wearing my school uniform on saturday. The whole world therefore knowing you've got the horror of all detentions. as you say 15 mins is pointless and achieves nothing. Reply to this
12/14/2008 11:56 PM
speedster wrote:
I have a strong sense of justice, even when I'm the perpetrator, and I therefore didn't really mind serving detentions that I deserved. I liked to know that I could take my punishment like a man, emerge intact, and then decide to repeat the offense if I chose to. The harsher the penalty, the more satisfying it was to repeat the offense. Reply to this
9/16/2008 7:02 PM
bloodbutterflies wrote:
i think they should have been more strict with uniform too. i never had my shirt tucked in or my top button done up, but i never even gt told off for it! Reply to this
10/14/2008 10:59 AM
DetentionSucks wrote:
I'm from Australia and go to a private school, and I got a 3 hour after school detention today. The head teacher had to call my parents and advise them of my detention and reason. They wouldn't let me do the detention another day, at least I could've talked to my parents, but the head teacher called my parents, the phone was also on loud speaker, so it was very scary. The reason why I got the detention was, well I was tagging the desk, the teacher walked out of the class, and I decided to tag the desk. Only to find she saw through the window, and send me to to the head teachers office. He wasn't impressed at all. So the teacher that spotted me doing it, wanted me to be punished for it, that afternoon, so she advised of the head teacher of the punishment. Then he wasn't happy with the punishment, so he placed me on a all day Saturday detention for this Saturday, which is from 9am to 5pm. I got home and my parents chucked a fit, and as it's my cousins wedding this Saturday, I won't be able to do the Saturday detention, and my parents aren't going to sign off on it. Instead they decided they will call the head teacher, and tell him to place me on 3 weeks Saturday detention and a weeks after school detention till what ever time he sees fit. What I had to do for my detention today is clean the tables. And wasn't allowed to leave until the tables where clean, so I actually ended up staying for about 3 hours 45 minutes after school today.
However I do deserve it, and I got caught doing a stupid thing. Which means now my 3 Saturdays are going to be wasted. Reply to this
11/19/2008 8:33 PM
youngster123 wrote:
i go to a public school in australia which is actually quite relaxed for instance no one will give a student detention for more than an hour which is only on a monday this is because seniors do a 4 day week because they do an extra hour class each day except monday. anyways the first time i had an hour detention was from a pretty relaxed guy because i hadnt done my work throughout the year and was meant to do it in the hour anyways i was talking to my friend before hand and we were having so much fun that an hour went passed without me relizing luckily for me he had no spares left and no extra detention always a plus, then another 1 i got was from my year co ordinator i had been wagging my classes and he put me on a attendance card which i didnt get signed for a class and he was mighty pissd off when he found out i got a 70 minute detention after school which he didnt show up to Reply to this
12/30/2008 5:59 PMChris wrote:
Yeah I always thought detention was fair. Saturday detention was comparably rare as most pupils managed to get out of them through some stupid get out clause. I never tried to get out of them cos if you've done something wrong there has to be justice and I felt better for taking my punishment and hopefully offering some justice to whoever I'd offended, that's thinking of my racist behaviour which earnt me saturday detention. I wanted people (and the other pupil's family) to know I got the strict detention and that I had no quarms about it. I guess theres something of satisfaction in that, maturity I suppose over the other kids who winged like hell! It earnt me more respect in the longer run. But as I said schools should be empowered to impose these long strict detentions and there should be no getting out of it. Reply to this
1/26/2009 11:01 AM
Helena wrote:
I have read the posts here and see why some kind of limitation has to be imposed on students who persistently disrespect teachers, or omit to do their school work, however I strongly disagree with holding a child back in school against parents and students wishes, parents ( specially parents of more than one child), have their whole day mapped out with other activities, and having your child at school for extra time, can mess up everyones schedule, my twin boys strive to get all their work done, with my supervision, however they have had detentions for not completing work, because this involved work that had not been covered in lessons yet... on one occasion, one of my sons did his homework, but made a mistake of going one page ahead, on the next morning , he took the right pages, and was told it was ok, by the teachers mistake, he got a detention letter, but as she had said it was ok he assumed it was not valid anymore, missing this one detention, he then went on to have a one hour detention, then the next day 2 hour detention, I spoke to the teacher, the teacher had accepted this was a mistake, he was told to go home after the first hour... only to get yet another detention, for not being there for the second hour!!!! ( both these detentions were supervised by the School Headteacher) I have asked for a meeting, and on that meeting, asked for their policy on detentions, so we can avoid them in future, nothing has been sent to me, but a new warning that seen as my other son was late into classroom (30sec after bell, and 1 minute after bell) after lunch break, he would also be given a detention.... is it unreasonable that i would want to know their policy? are they not being too rash and negative with my sons, they are polite, and they do their work... I don't have to wonder what is done to the children who have behaviors problems, these, because they need careful handling get away with walking out of the classroom, as they answer their mobile phone, stabing themselves with compases,and generally being very disruptive, and no teacher can discipline them, to avoid violent reactions. what does that say to the children who are mild mannered, and are standing by witnessing this? Reply to this
1/26/2009 11:33 AM
Helena wrote:
Adding to my last post, what can a parent do, or a student for that matter, if the school is being petty and overgenerous with their detentions? I am not there to verify that my son was in class just off the bell, but I know they let me know and admit promptly when they are in the wrong. Incidentally, just as this matter comes to a head, I get a letter from said school asking me to sign a Covenant (thats a contact) to commit me to donate £10 for each of my twins per month for 7 years to "help" the school building project.... Opinions please! Reply to this
1/29/2009 11:01 PM
Jack wrote:
I think they should cop it nice and sweet. It's a punishment for being late even though its a minute late, they should cop it. If you speed over the limit, and you have done a 1km over the limit you have broken the law. Same thing. Reply to this
1/30/2009 7:43 AM
Helena wrote:
I meant serious opinions, anyone with common sense knows that over punishing has the opposite effect, it desensitizes kids, to the point where they done care anymore, so where, then is the point doing it at all... punishments are most effective when handed out fairly,even sparingly, so the offending person actually feels bad about it, not fall into a habit... by the way, if you run one km over speed limit, you don't get fined, do you even drive? the legislation is 10% over the limit, to allow for speedometers inaccuracies. Could you by any chance be like one of those teachers who boosts their ego by overexercising their authority, with no thought for whether you are actually damaging behavior rather than improving it? Reply to this
9/11/2009 2:43 PMruby wrote:
i always get detentions at school, i believe most of the male teachers just are peedos who fancy me lol but anywayz i got one of my detentions for having my tie too short and it waz for an hour after school and the best thing about it was that all i did was sit at a desk with my feet up for the whole hour doing absolutely nothing but then right at the end the peedo teacher told me i had another detention for no reason so i was pretty peed of really Reply to this
9/15/2009 12:03 PM
Amanda wrote:
Hi Ruby, was your detention on the same afternoon or you had to take a detention slip home for your parents to sign? I got several detentions and sometimes Im kept afterschool for an hour or so without any detention slips and sometimes I have to take a detention slip home. Really depends on the teachers mood, and how serious the offence is, if im usually kept afterschool on the same afternoon mum knows im on detention as we have had to sign a form in the beginning of the year saying that the teachers have a right to detain us afterschool for upto an hour without any notification. I've got a detention just about every day this for the next 2 weeks, including a month of Saturday detentions as I didnt go the Saturday detention I had last weekend, which was from 9am to 1pm, now I have to do 4 Saturday detentions from 9am to 5pm.
And if I miss them I get excepeled, so I did it on purpose, so I get the detentions, as I have the hots for a couple of the teachers. Including some of the female ones, as Im bi. Reply to this
10/17/2009 7:17 PM
Phoebe wrote:
My school has a traffic light system for detentions.You get a: Yellow Card- Minor Offence Red Card- Major Offence Green Card- Homework (Long Friday) You can also get a Saturday Morning. 3xYellow* = Red 3xRed* = EXPELLED 3xGreen* = Saturday MORNING You can also get an LRC detention which is for misbehaving in the Library and thats helping tidy the shelves add tables. We have a merit system a swell in our school for good behavior and detentions come with negative merits. YELLOW=-1 RED=-3 GREEN=-4 Saturday=-(UNKNOWN) It's really embarrassing when you get a red or green card because your head of year tells it to everyone in your class when he comes round to make sure you know you have one and theres no escape when you get an after school or sturdy morning because you get a letter home. I've never had a detention and I am in year 8. Detentions are really easy to get at our school and also they make you fill out the cards yourself so you acknowledge what you have done which helps some people. Reply to this
10/25/2009 10:05 AM
David wrote:
We have a similar system depending on what we have done wrong, however we have lunch time detentions as well in which also depends on the teacher that gave it to you, sometimes we are made to pick up rubbish or we have a yellow line that we have to stand on, rain shine or hail. Or we can spend it in the class room writing lines on the chalkboard.
If we get 3 lunch time detentions we automaticaly get an afterschool detention for an hour.
We can also bypass the lunch time detention and get an afterschool detention usually an hour to 3 hours. If it is an hour, usually we are held back the same afternoon, but anything over an hour we are send a letter home. Usually an afterschool detention goes to 5pm so close to 2 hours after school. 3 After school detentions results in an automatic Saturday detentions from 9am to either 1pm or can go upto 3.15pm or sometimes can go to 5pm.
Or sometimes you would just get a Saturday detention.
Then 3 Saturday detentions automatically result in Holiday detentions, where you have to attend school during the next school holidays when the teachers are there, which is usually a couple of days after school breaks of before school breaks. Or you can get a Holiday detention automatically.
During detentions it depends on who is in charge. Sometimes ive had to clean tables, toilets, or write lines, or copy lines, or face the wall, or stand on the yellow line, or pick up rubbish. Or just sit down or stand up and do nothing. Or can be a mixture of both. Generally if it is raining they make you stand on the yellow line. I recently just got a Holiday detention, just last week where I had to attend school for 2 days from 9am to 5pm, it rained one of the days and I was made to stand on the yellow line for about 4 hours in the rain, then I was called inside the office and was made to face the wall in the corridor until i was dry. So I was actually on detention from about 9am to about 6pm as it took a while for my clothes to dry whilst facing the wall.
I must admit I didnt learn my lesson, I got the detention coz I called one of the teachers a fucken stupid mole, I think she still is. Reply to this
11/11/2009 4:29 PMruby wrote:
hi amanda, no it was a slip and it was the day after . I had another one today because i was caught texting so she took my phone and made me write lines for an hour at lunch Reply to this
11/17/2009 3:20 AM
Henry wrote:
I found this poll here about saturday detention that might be of interest to some of you
12/8/2009 5:07 PM
george wrote:
i ogt detention for apparently making sill noises every 1 was silent and the teacher kept 6 pupils behind and he blamed me and gave me the after school... i never turned up because when i told him how late i got home and that i had to run home as it is. then the facking kunt laughed at me so i said is somfing rong and he sedno just u running so i went to the head and said he called me fat so he got fired.. (: Reply to this
4/14/2010 7:40 PM
sagger wrote:
I was sagging my pants at school today, and the teacher cought me. I was sent to the health room to get a change of clothes. The nurse made me put on tidy-whities and I said NO! So i got 3 after-school detentions. they lasted from 2:30 until 7! It that even legal? I just had to sit there and do nothing! every time i moved, I got another 5 min added! I was there until 7:45! I had to wear tidy-whities the whole time! I won't do that again! Reply to this
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. I had another one today because i was caught texting so she took my phone and made me write lines for an hour at lunch