To feel a bit caught in the middle of this

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A homework question here.

I make sure DS (year 10) always does his homework. I check his planner, tick it off and sign it. This is part of my contract with the school.

DS has just been sent a detention letter for not doing a particular piece of homework, he has done it but hasn't handed it in due to the teacher not asking for it.

Up until now I have said to DS it's his responsiblity to hand it into the teacher whether it's asked for or not.

He tells me that no-one does that as it's seen as being a sneak, as in it will alert the teacher to ask everyone and he will have the piss taken out of him/won't be very popular for this.

Is it the teachers responsibility to ask for it?

This is not a teacher bashing thread by the way, I admire them for teaching in secondary schools these days.

At his age its his responsibility to submit all the homework on time.

There has to be a reason why he had the work done but didn't submit it, knowing he would get detention.

When is detention? Break or lunchtimes? Could it be he is being bullied and so is trying to avoid being unsupervised. Or could all the cool kids be in detention so, wanting to fit in he's also trying to be there as well.

He needs to do his homework and have it marked by the person who set it. Life lesson my foot. Hw and marking is much more important than a teacher deliberately not saying "homework please" in order to catch out the pupils.