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Did anybody ever go to a high school with that long of a detention on a

posted 8 years ago by NobodymournstheWicked
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Did anybody ever go to a high school with that long of a detention on a Saturday? The detention started at 7:00 A.M. even through they didn't show up and all seated until 7:06 when Richard Vernon arrived and looked at his watch and he said that they had 8 hours and 54 minutes left to figure out why they were there. SO you figure the detention ended at 4:00 P.M. which is about 1 hour longer then a regular school day. If not and I hope that none of you did, but if you are aware of how long Saturday detention was at the time you went to high school?

[–] robocop-37224 8 years ago

I went 2 in my high-school year. It went from 8am-4pm. We sat in the hard auditorium seats and did absolutely nothing. There was a teacher who was there. But he took numerous breaks throughout the day. We had lunch in the cafeteria but then sat back in the auditorium. All we did was state at the stage the whole entire time. Truth be told I'd do it again in a heartbeat!

[–] MichaelMovieLoft 8 years ago

In my junior year, our school started doing Saturday detention, but the longest it would go was 6 hours. I never got to be part of "Saturday Fun Club", as my principal called it. The funny thing is one of my friends saw the Saturday detention thing on our first day and he was like, "What do they think we are? The Breakfast Club?" lol.

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[–] kya1 8 years ago

We never had a Saturday detention here in the uk. If you misbehaved, you were sent to the "exclusion room", a sparsely furnished classroom, where a very strict teacher glared at you the entire time and made you write about why you were there.

I was never sent there, but, years later, I sort of wish I'd told the French mistress exactly what I thought of her, and ended up there, haha.

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[–] Blizzard_Beasts 8 years ago

It was like a detention for Vernon too. I doubt he ever comes to school on Saturdays. My High School had detention after school but mostly teachers who supervised it were the ones who were working on lessons plans after school and staying late anyway. Some teachers literally just bolted out of the door as soon as the final bell rang and never stayed late. Other teachers did stay late.

But I can't imagine any teacher ever volunteering to come in on a Saturday.

[–] deem_bastille 8 years ago

EXACTLY! he might have been getting paid extra but I doubt it. we only get paid for things like Saturday school/planning meetings/pd's if we have the money for it.

but that is the debate with the grounding of children, especially children who were driving. when you grounded a kid you were essentially grounding yourself, too as a parent. you had to stay home and babysit your kid. you lost your gofer of a teenage driver.

same thing with out of school suspension [which is why suspension is all within school or go to another school]. when a kid is home from school due to being suspended, you ought to stay home too and babysit.

but to be honest, if your kid did something bad enough that it warrants suspension, then you SHOULD be held responsible for your apparent shi77y parenting.

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[–] Catnip86 8 years ago

but to be honest, if your kid did something bad enough that it warrants suspension, then you SHOULD be held responsible for your apparent shi77y parenting.

Not all the time. Parents can't watch their kids 24/7. I knew a family growing up that had three kids. Two grew up to be normal, decent, working people. One chose the path of drugs and crime. No matter what the parents did, that kid got into trouble. (Spent time in juvie too, now as an adult, in and out of prison).

So, all were raised the same in the same house. But one made different choices than the other two.

[–] deem_bastille 8 years ago

what it all boils down to is how the child was taught to enter and view the world. and the choices that the children do fall on the parents. at least they did. I was one of three kids... I was taught to respect my elders and be responsible, my middle sister was taught she was the queen [long story] and then that backfired on my parent's asses bigtime, and my youngest sister was taught to be the Michelle Tanner and was mom's best friend. When the youngest got into a spot of bother in junior year, then mom realized she had created a monster with befriending her kid. everything is fine now, we all have careers and the youngest one is now a mother of two and is amazing with my nieces. Still, we were all raised differently, no matter what roof we were raised under.

back when this movie was made parents were actually held responsible for their kid's crap. now, it's all psychologize the kids this and Freud says it's mother's fault that...

All I am saying, I that what out of school detention really was, was the parent's detention, not really the child. even in high school, it should be the parent's fault.

I have seen kids in kindergarten get at home suspension for bringing in knives/lighters/whatnot [1999-2000] so this is going back to then. There was none of this 'now why did you think...?' nonsense. you did something wrong, whomever you were, whatever situation happened, your parents paid the price.

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[–] SpaceMountainMike 8 years ago

I heard that in the UK they paddle you at the next school assembly in front of all the kids in the school. If it';s true then I say hooray for the UK.

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[–] plumlogan 8 years ago

In my school we had a two tierd detention system - either two hours after school for minor infractions, or for bigger stuff we had in-house, which meant we spent the next school day in a study room, alone, in the library