My daughter is a hard-working student who has never received a single sanction since starting Year 7. She is now in Year 9 and was mortified today to receive a detention for an overdue library book.
While I completely understand that the book was overdue, I do question whether it’s really necessary to issue a detention for this. It feels a little excessive to create fear around returning a library book on time, especially when we live in a world where encouraging children to read is already such a challenge.
I suppose I just needed to vent my frustration about this situation.