Afterschool Detention Wrongly given?

[cazbate]

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.)

Oh, gawd...

Your printer broke, none of his friends have printers, the library broke, the school broke, the school teacher wasn't there, nobody knew who the school teacher was, the email broke, the computer broke...

OP, welcome to the real world. You have to cope with stuff. He could have handwritten it, he could have gone to the library in town, he could have gone to an internet cafe, he could have emailed her from another email system, he could have given her his memory stick, you could have gone and bought more ink... Shock horror, he could have gone and spoken to her.

Life is hard. I've had to submit coursework where a) I missed the teaching of it due to being off ill and b) it wasn't practicable for an extension due to having surgery to sort out illness. Put up, suck it up.

The odd detention won't hurt him at all sounds like it would do him a world of good

At least someone is teaching him about responsibility and consequences. ..

He needs to learn to suck it up. Life's unfair.

Thanks for the giggle! Spelling tests at GCSE? One thing I don't understand is why OP says he only had 2 days to do the work. Surely looking at original deadline and subsequent agreed or non-agreed deadline there was a weekend in there?

OP keeps saying he met the deadline but doesn't realise that handing in a hard copy if what meets the deadline not just having it complete out there somewhere in cyberworld. I can't believe it is a parent but it surely must be the stroppy teen arguing back that he is NBU! Anyway very amusing.

He just needs to suck it up. One day he'll get a parking ticket from some jobsworth for overstaying in a bay by (after the announcement today) 10 minutes and 1 second. Detentions are a way of teaching kids to get used to bureaucracy and unfairness (as well as the main aim of encouraging good behaviour and organisation skills).

My son got a detention a few weeks ago for not doing a homework. He and about 5 other kids in the class didn't realise they had to do it. Maybe the teacher should have considered that she hadn't given very clear instructions. Or maybe they just didn't listen. Or maybe both.

Anyway, he stayed for half an hour after school. He didn't explode, it was 30 minutes out of his day. It's over and done with.

evans, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one thinking that!

I also assume nata's comments are sarcastic, especially with the giant grin at the end.

OP: this doesn't sound that so much of a big deal. Sometimes things don't work they way they should, and it is an individual's responsibility to do what they can to make it work. Even if it still doesn't work out, people will be much more inclined towards someone who went all efforts to try to solve a problem, and still admitting fault, rather than resting on excuses. And sometimes life isn't fair. Better he learn this lesson now and get a detention, than at something with more far reaching consequences.

Thanks, Murmuration You, Camolips and I appear to be the only ones who sussed it, and I agree, Nata's comments were highly likely to have been tongue-in-cheek.

Hopefully, though, OP/son has got the message that hard work and diligence win the day, not laziness, excuses and a laissez-faire attitude.
Get up and out of your bed, get on with what you have to do and stop whingeing and making excuses.

Parents, quite rightly, will not always be bailing you out