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Afterschool Detention Wrongly given?

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cazbate · 05/03/2015 17:55

yesterday my son was supposed to give in a homework that had to be done on a computer. my printer has no ink and the library was closed and others were broke.hes doing his GCSEs had he didn't have time to run about trying to print it of. he did not have the teacher that day and he had to give it in in his own time. he went in the morning and she wasn't there. at the end of the day she sent a student to collect them. someone gave it in and he told the teacher his just needed to be printed. he was off on the day it was given so he had to Wednesday as it was supposed to b for Tuesday. if it wasn't in for Tuesday it was a lunch time detention. not in for the nextr day it was an afterschool. he even reminded her twice that his was for Wednesday. in the letter she sent it said the deadline was Tuesday. the others didn't give it on Tuesday so they wud get an after school but Wednesday was my deadline. today he got told I have an afterschool detention. but he had it. the teacher said where was his and showed her the USB stick and said he just needed to print it off. she wrote that down and the student left. why is he getting an afterschool detention. he could not get it printed of. what was he supposed to do. he does have other much more important subjects to deal with (the homework was for journalism and he missed a bit of maths and biology to deal with this.)

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TheFallenMadonna · 05/03/2015 19:07

He should not have missed other lessons to deal with it. He should have printed it at break, lunchtime or after school, or emailed it to the teacher. I don't accept sight of a memory stick as evidence of homework.

fourcorneredcircle · 05/03/2015 19:07

Let me guess, email was broken too? Ah, yes. That'll be it. Well known sequel to "The curious case of the vanishing teacher in the (school)day time"

DuchessofBuffonia · 05/03/2015 19:08

Couldn't he have emailed from your home computer on the Tuesday or the Wednesday?

TheFallenMadonna · 05/03/2015 19:08

Ah. Missed that email was broken. Sorry!

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cazbate · 05/03/2015 19:09

he could not do and he didn't give up he was attempting to print throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. yes you all have your own opinion but he had it she cud have took the USB and printed of herself, he had not got an extended deadline as he was told on Monday while others were told last Friday. while others didn't do it at all he completed with only needing to print. he failed in printing it throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. there was no given instruction that he must print it out for Wednesday the homework was analysis a trailer and analysis your storyboard. handwriting is not an option he did that before and he got told off.

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cazbate · 05/03/2015 19:09

he could not do and he didn't give up he was attempting to print throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. yes you all have your own opinion but he had it she cud have took the USB and printed of herself, he had not got an extended deadline as he was told on Monday while others were told last Friday. while others didn't do it at all he completed with only needing to print. he failed in printing it throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. there was no given instruction that he must print it out for Wednesday the homework was analysis a trailer and analysis your storyboard. handwriting is not an option he did that before and he got told off.

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SauvignonBlanche · 05/03/2015 19:09

YABU, don't get too worked up over a detention.

Charlie97 · 05/03/2015 19:10

I think you and inferring that the school are treating your son unfairly.

Three detentions, NONE of them justified, your little angel has never taken a step wrong.

To be honest, leaving class etc sounds totally unreasonable and I'm sure my sons school would not allow this.

However, you need to clarify IMO that ALL the events and efforts of printing took place, it seems like a lot of effort for no result. Especially as you say others were allowed to print their but you son seemed to be excluded.

TBH teenagers can be devious things, make sure it's true and he is being treated differently before you raise this.

ouryve · 05/03/2015 19:12

If you know that he gets homeworks that have to be printed off, why was there no ink for the printer? I can't remember the last time I had a printer that didn't tell me how much ink was left.

Nomama · 05/03/2015 19:12

he can't spend his entire day to print it. and his teacher can't spend all day waiting for him to find her... sometimes there are situations you fall foul of.

Usually called the stresses of daily life. It is unfair to blame the teacher, it is unfair to lay the blame wholly on your DS - you have your share of that too for not having ink in your home printer.

The consequences of your inattentiveness, your DS not having been in one day and having pfaffed with printing plus the teacher's having run out of patience/forgotten something about one of a couple of hundred students is your DS has a detention!

Tough!

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cazbate · 05/03/2015 19:14

noblegiraffe:

he requires her username e.g. ngiraffe145. he didn't know it. he asked other teachers but they doesn't know it.

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londonrach · 05/03/2015 19:15

Yabu. Learning experience for your son so very valuable. Not to leave it too late and if he does email it to teacher or go into school early and use their printer. I remember at uni seeing students panicking re deadlines (which can not be missed full stop) who not learnt this. Your boy very lucky to learn this now! I learnt that at uni if you got the work done early lecturers would look at it and give feedback meaning my grades were better. Im not a swot honest just older person (21 plus) going to uni and worried not as good as the 18 year olds...

fourcorneredcircle · 05/03/2015 19:16

He asked other teachers but they doesn't know it tosh. Seriously, do you believe everything your teenager tells you?

YouTheCat · 05/03/2015 19:18

Why should she print off your ds's homework? It is his to do. What if every student gave her usbs to print from? How do you think that would work?

I think you've been spun a yarn by your ds. There will have been a working printer somewhere in that school.

noblegiraffe · 05/03/2015 19:19

I don't believe for a minute that other teachers wouldn't know how to look up a teacher's email address.

First the attachments were broken and now he doesn't know her email address?

Not buying it.

YouTheCat · 05/03/2015 19:20

How can he get to gcse year and not know his user name?

That is an absolute load of crap.

Koalafications · 05/03/2015 19:21

he requires her username e.g. ngiraffe145. he didn't know it. he asked other teachers but they doesn't know it.

Utter bollocks!

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cazbate · 05/03/2015 19:21

we had ordered ink on Friday had it hadn't came yet. please don't call my son a devious thing I know he isn't lying because very upset because he doesn't want a detention. for him its the end of the world because he spent a lot of time to finish that stupid homework for her to give him a detention. why are people saying she ran out of patience. he did not miss the original deadline and forget to bring it again and then again. that deadline was not missed there were many ways the teacher could take it. he sees her tomorrow and he will speak to her tomorrow about it. its a lot of pressure on him as he barely has time to himself anymore and he can't deal with something that he doesn't deserve.

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YouTheCat · 05/03/2015 19:22

Sorry, misread.

He could have asked. I still stand by him telling you a heap of lies.

Koalafications · 05/03/2015 19:22

Oh and Grin at 'broken attachments'

As if that's believable!

mommy2ash · 05/03/2015 19:23

you need to get a grip and some printer ink and perhaps this problem won't occur again.

Nomama · 05/03/2015 19:23

Oh dear OP!

Your DS is swinging in the breeze right now! Top of a slippery slope... living on the edge.

That little catalogue of 'not my faults' doe snot ring true, especially the last post's worth. No, no way he couldn't find her email address. ALL school email addies follow the same protocol... and there is no way he does not know his GCSE teacher's name!

Now I think he deserves another detention for trying to hornswoggle his mother.

Koalafications · 05/03/2015 19:24

Why is it her responsibility to 'get' his homework and not his responsibility to hand it in to her in an acceptable format?

His homework, his responsibility.

YouTheCat · 05/03/2015 19:25

I have heard all of these wonderful excuses before from my dd when she was that age.

She'd be all upset and distraught at the thought of being in trouble but it really was down to her to sort out - just as it is down to your ds to sort.

Hopefully the detention will help him focus and avoid any future ones.

Nomama · 05/03/2015 19:26

Stupid homework... ah well!