Detentions

[heresjohnny]

What's your school policy regarding detentions? Have you ever had any?

For us, you get five school days to serve it. Detentions are either 45 minutes before school or an hour after. (I think the after school ones go from 3:15 to 4, which allow people time to get their things, use the restroom, etc.) You can choose if you want before or after. If you miss part of practice due to a detention, the coach and/or athletic director can determine if you run extra or not start or sit out a game or whatever.

If you fail to serve in five days or if you get a certain number in a period of time, you get a "Saturday School" which is Saturday AM and you go and help them clean the desks or wash the floors or pick up trash, etc.

Detentions can carry over holidays but generally don't carry over between academic years. (I'd imagine they'd just say to get another school.)

[Atlantis]

You're told when and where it is. You don't get a choice. You tend to get a detention at a break and lunch first, then if you miss that you have an hour after school detention. Things like uncorrect uniform, lateness and missing equipment puts you on the "red card" , which is basically 30 minute detention on a Friday lunchtime.

I've never had a detention though.

[bentheplayer]

Detentions in my previous school was mainly given for perceived infractions of tardiness like being late, untidily dressed, "forgetting" homework too many times etc. Being late was the worse since we had to report to one particular member of staff early each morning over the course of the next few days. If we were late for more than 3 times per term, we would get a detention and the number will increase exponentially for each subsequent lateness in theory.

I used to be late for quite a number of times since I hate mornings. >.< But somehow I was able to escape with doing just 1 detention. That guy in charge was somewhat elitist so he usually only comes down hard on people who don't perform as expected academically. He has the ability to decide whether to uphold the detention or simply "forget" about it and what the detention entails. The detention I did was a mere token 45mins after school where I could do anything as long as I don't leave the desk. Didn't seem like much of a punishment anyway since I just did my homework for that day. I have heard that he had made certain students run/clean the school grounds and toilet before. It is kinda a game of chance really.

[erik2000]

There is no detention in the school where I live. If kids misbehave teachers just send a note to parents. Or if something very serious happens they can fire the kid but I've never heard of such.
Parents have to sign the note. My parents always punish me with the belt or the cane for it.

[Phosphene]

At my school, detentions are usually during lunch. There's one specific teacher who they're with, but in rare cases the teacher of the class a student made the offense in will give the detention instead. You get them for things like being late to a class 3 times, disrespecting a student, teacher or anyone else of authority, that kind of thing. I even have a teacher who gives a tardy if you use the bathroom so those add up the same way as if you were actually late to class. I've never gotten a detention.

[City Kid]

Detentions aren't a thing here in Germany. If you fuck up you get a warning called a Tadel and if you get several of them they simply force you to switch schools. That's it.

[Darkslidex7]

My school is quite harsh in my opinion, if you're not following the dress code it's 1000 squats and a 1st warning, it duplicates as you add more infractions, for small things like that you get 3 warnings on the 3rd you get suspended for a week and give far more hw than those that are in class; but if you make a pretty bad one such as eating in class, cheating or misbehavior, you get expelled from the school forever. And it's just like soccer clubs, the last 5 students with the lowest grades get kicked out for that year until you get above As and. Bs in another school kind of like a relegation zone in leagues.

[Jinglebottom]

My school doesn't give out detentions, but if you regularly misbehave in class you could get a warning ("un avertissement") at the end of the trimester, which comes in an envelope that has to be signed by parents. You can also receive a warning over bad grades/unsatisfactory work. Once you accumulate three warnings of any kind, you're out. But if you fuck up really bad then you can get suspended or expelled, it depends. When the teacher kicks you out of their class, you know you're screwed cause you're supposed to pay the principal a visit, but most just hang out in the halls instead. I've never gotten kicked out before! (okay.. maybe once). :P

[TRAbitha13]

What's your school policy regarding detentions? Have you ever had any?

For us, you get five school days to serve it. Detentions are either 45 minutes before school or an hour after. (I think the after school ones go from 3:15 to 4, which allow people time to get their things, use the restroom, etc.) You can choose if you want before or after. If you miss part of practice due to a detention, the coach and/or athletic director can determine if you run extra or not start or sit out a game or whatever.

If you fail to serve in five days or if you get a certain number in a period of time, you get a "Saturday School" which is Saturday AM and you go and help them clean the desks or wash the floors or pick up trash, etc.

Detentions can carry over holidays but generally don't carry over between academic years. (I'd imagine they'd just say to get another school.)

My school is the same, but we have to do our detention in the next 3 school days

[Adamant]

To be honest too many detentions to count or even remember. Break and lunchtime first then after school ones. Lunch and break on the day. After school they have to give you 24 hours notice. Repeated no show and you get a Saturday morning one or internal exclusion in the isolation room. I have collected the full set.
Mind you only a few last term.:)

[InternetTeen]

We get detentions and I've had a couple. My last one was in September. Usually it's at break or lunch and they're rarely over 10 minutes. If it's a HOY, HOD detention it's 20 minutes but if it's a HOS detention it's 30 minutes. Then it's an after school detention which is an hour. Then it's a Saturday morning detention and then finally it's isolation

[Katie2003]

I've experienced every sort of disciplinary action that my schools have been allowed to use. :( I've had serious emotional issues over the past several years and find it challenging to behave appropriately. While I do well in my classes and get exceptionally good grades, I'm also the #1 student in the entire high school for disciplinary contact with the administration.

[Natacha]

We don't use detention at school. They use communication and reasoning. Besides the shame of doing something wrong is a worse punishment.

[Oscar-V3.0]

They tell you when you get it. Either during lunch break or after school or on Saturday morning.
I got 2 of them. Or at least they tried to.

Not a chance I skip lunch. Every doctor and scientist will tell you that all meals are important, especially breakfast to be attentive in the morning, and lunch for the afternoon, and that you shall not skip one

After school? Sorry guys, I have 2 younger sibling to go pickup after their classes

Saturday morning? Sorry, I have music lessons, and my parents are not playing an expensive music school to have me skip lessons

So for your detention, thanks but no thanks

[Adamant]

They tell you when you get it. Either during lunch break or after school or on Saturday morning.
I got 2 of them. Or at least they tried to.

Not a chance I skip lunch. Every doctor and scientist will tell you that all meals are important, especially breakfast to be attentive in the morning, and lunch for the afternoon, and that you shall not skip one

After school? Sorry guys, I have 2 younger sibling to go pickup after their classes

Saturday morning? Sorry, I have music lessons, and my parents are not playing an expensive music school to have me skip lessons

So for your detention, thanks but no thanks

What! They let you get away with it? Or did they set another punishment instead?

[Oscar-V3.0]

What! They let you get away with it? Or did they set another punishment instead?

The first time I didn't have any news, so I guess they just forgot about me. Lol :D
The second time they told me a date and time, I didn't go

But its not like I had dozens of them lol

[Diable rouge]

In my school, you're told when and where it is. You don't get a choice. It is in the evening after classes, 1 hour or more. Many students get them.
I have had quite a few and managed to "skip" some. I was supposed to get a few others, but some staff forgot it and I did not want to waste their time by reminding them lol

[thatboi]

In Poland we don't have detention. Every term you receive behaviour grade (1/2/3/4/5 or 6). If you do something good you are awarded with note that has influence on final behaviour grade and bad note lowers it. Usually not really active but good behaving students receive 5 out of 6 which is really good grade.

[EthanMTX]

At my school, they have morning, lunch or after school detentions, usually 45 mins to an hour. You get warnings, calls to parents and stuff like that before getting them. If you are in sports you have to take swats because detention times are during practice unless you get a lunchtime one. Really bad stuff, you get ISS, suspended or kicked out. Private schools are tougher on behaviors than public from what I hear.

[danielmx]

At my school,we dont have detention, but if someone does not behave, a letter will be sent to their parents. But if the behavior of someone is terrible, they will have to clean the bathrooms for a whole day

[LiberalTurboprop]

People only seemed to really get detentions for being really quite disruptive in class - generally being sent to another classroom. And sometimes people have to stay in during recess or lunch if they haven't done the schoolwork that they were meant to. Afterschool detentions were more for serious not doing work or punishment for being disruptive or doing something wrong. Sometimes they threaten people generally with detention for uniform infractions or playing violent video games on school computers but - quite rightly IMO - very few teachers enforce those.

[Knightley]

At my school first you get a warning then you get lines or paragraphs or told to wait out side the call for a set amount of time depending on what you did then detention with is usually at break and lunch. and you get detention if you get more then 3 warnings in one day or more then 5 the whole week and if you get given lines 3 times in one week you get a weeks detention. its all very over complicated lol. But I've never done any of the lines or paragraphs I've been given or went to any of the detections. eventually they just stopped trying to get me to go to the detentions

[BlackParadePixie]

I was given detention once, but it was a total joke. I showed up and the teacher in charge knew me and was like, "What are you doing here? You don't belong. Come sign your name and get out of here." LOL it was pretty funny, the rest of the people in there were so jelly.

[AshleighB]

Never had detention, but it’s usually an hour after school

[kayin]

I have never had detentions

[ItIsKai]

in england, when I used to live there, detentions could range from 10 minutes to 2 hours.

[Tyler111]

I don't my school has detentions, but if you cut class too much, you have to go to Saturday school. Never had to do that though.

[sportskid2006]

For us it’s similar, you can either go before or after school

[Riley2015]

i had a load of detentions, most were after school and were normally 30 minutes or 1 hour after school , i was put on detention for 1 month once,longest detention i had was 90 minutes and the shortest just 10 minutes but most were 30 minutes or 1 hour

Detention never bothered me but the worst punishment is when i got 1000 lines to write at home to be handed in by the next day

[Gone Away]

I have never gotten detention. At my school they have 2 types of detention. They have lunch detention and after school detention.

[HeyCameron]

My middle school had detention. My high school does not, to my knowledge. Detention seemed pointless to me. The only people it acted as a deterrent to were good students who would be horrified to get one (for example, detentions were given to people who brought permission slips in late). The kids who got it more often for actual acting out couldn't have cared less.