Just interested - how many people have secondary school aged kids whose school gives a detention for forgetting basic equipment like a ruler?
I wonder does it really teach kids to be organised. Surely it just means disorganised people get lots of detentions? And feeds anxiety?
My schooling in the 90s felt pretty strict but this seems borderline bonkers. My dd currently “can’t borrow a school library book for the rest of the year” as she’s so anxious about getting a detention because she handed her last book in two weeks late. So now we are visiting our local library instead to provide her with books to read! I have obviously told her to just get the detention over and done with but she is adamant and determined to avoid it.
vote Yabu for No detention given
and Yanbu for Detention given.