School detention for forgetting a ruler?

See, I have turned up without my laptop before. Twice, in fact. No idea how I managed it. (I suspect I have inattentive ADHD but see no point in getting a diagnosis.)

My employer - or rather the IT department - laughed at me and gave me a spare. No detention. No shame. A hassle for me because it wasn't set up how I like it, but other than that we all just got on with things.

By the sounds of it all these draconian behaviour systems don't really work at all then as the classroom behaviour is worse than is has ever been, by all accounts on here!

You're embarrassing yourself now honestly. Let's leave it. You've "won"... If that's what you believe

I've just checked the detention details and he was in fact drinking water in the science lab. He knows he shouldn't do this so he absolutely deserved the detention. I'm the mum and I agree with the detention. Young teens can be really defiant and they need to learn when, and when not, to question authority.

@hamsterchump I had a dad march into my classroom ( don’t know how he got past reception) as I’d sent his son out for ‘putting something in the bin’. How could he possibly be punished for recycling?! The real story was he was repeatedly throwing paper balls across the room in the general direction of the bin by the board including while I was standing at that board trying to teach. Kids often tell a version of a story.

Good comeback.

Ok Hun.

I think you fail to realise how badly behaved/violent kids are in schools.
.and how disruptive things like water bottles can be.... It's not the drinking water that's the actual problem in of itself...

It's the kids fiddling with bottles (tapping, crunching , spinning, flipping, retrieving from bag), wanting to refill them in the middle of lesson, spilling water, deliberately pouring water on desks/paper/carpets/other pupils, spitting water out, throwing the bottles around/at people, people remarking that "Oi! Kelly's got vodka in he water bottle" ...and any other mischief a bored teenager can think of.

Easiest to ban water bottles in the classroom/make them keep them in bags.

It's almost as if people have no imagination and can't comprehend a different point of view and reduce all debate to winning and losing.

There are also computer rooms ( I have had to empty keyboards of water and juice before now) and some technology labs.
But in standard classrooms its strange.
I also agree that the constant drinking of water didn't used to be a thing.

It's almost as if some children don't always tell the truth, even to their Mummy or that they aren't always perfectly behaved?! Shhh there's plenty on here that couldn't take the shock.

@FrippEnos and @Chocolatebuttonns ,

Drinking generally isn’t allowed in labs, for fairly obvious reasons.

And I do find it strange how, when I was at school, literally no one would drink in lessons, as water bottles just weren’t a thing (and we had long days and long periods between breaks).

Now you get pupils asking to drink as they are suddenly desperately thirsty and might get a headache….

The argument! The fact that you've been reduced to making ad hominem attacks just proves it.

Loser? What have I lost?!

It is rare for a school not to allow drinking in lessons.
So the school must have had a reason for that.

But then it is only on here that the children drinking never make it in to a huge drama.

The rattling, banging, slurping, bubbling, gurgling, gargling, hissing, dropping and flipping of the bottle.

But then there is a huge difference between taking a quick sip and creating a drama out of it.

So where's the money coming from to pay for all the equivalent?

Or is it that only those who paid get to borrow?

Who's policing which parents have paid?

Okay. If you say so. We can all see your vile opinions on ND for ourselves.

I have no idea why people are arguing about neuro diversity as op has not said that her child is Nd. Children have to learn to follow the rules eventually, if you don't agree with your schools rules then home educate.
I notice no child ever forgets that vital educational resource their phone.

@Chocolatebuttonns I think most working Mums feel like that. I’m not ND but I’m a working single parent and my life revolves around lists and reminders. I have an ongoing master list and daily sub-lists. I would literally rather lose my purse than my list, because without it I’d be completely lost. I have multiple reminders on my phone. Being a parent is hard work.

No it wasn't, it was in relation to everyone who struggles with responsibility and organisation. But you know when you've got a hammer everything starts to looks like a nail I guess.

Well you don't seem able to talk about anything else other than yourself. Otherwise why are you so against children who necessarily don't know everything yet, because they're children, being given help and strategies that will help them their whole lives by the people that are meant to know them best, their parents? The only reason can be that you're so self obsessed you got offended and upset and now can't see past the end of your nose.

Yes, systems that do sweet FA other than make children feel inadequate over a pencil or totally non plussed about being rewarded for having one, surveillance, surveillance, surveillance. Pointless data accumulating on some cloud somewhere, how did we ever manage without such systems!

Parents are allowed, people are allowed to have an opinion on education and how it is delivered. Striving for perfection is incredibly damaging to young people and their cognitive development, people are allowed to hold that opinion.

I think your response about strategies was in relation to ND as if you were the first person ever to think about it. It wasn't just me that took issue with it either.

I never said it was about me. You really don't need to keep attacking me with this whole 'the world doesn't revolve around you'

I'm well aware. I'm just pointing out your ignorance around ND. But you're actually doing a really good job of that yourself.