AIBU to think that schools shouldn't dish out detention to pupils who can't complete online homework as they do not have access to a pc or laptop at home?

[NellysKnickers]

As the title says, there is a homework club after school once a week but this keeps being cancelled. I've told DS1 if they do carry out the threat of detention then I will ring the school. Any teachers out there who can offer their point of view? as I'm failing to see the schools side in this.

No Pissed You advocated dropping the children off to his mothers or sisters when other posters told you their exes wouldnt take them.

Yeah I did so that the mother or sister embarrasses him into do something

Nothing like having the problem in your own living room to force people to deal with their idiot of a son or brother

the mother or sister of the deadbeat dad is not responsible for the children

BOTH the parents are I AGREE.

I have a brother. Luckily i have a decent one.

but if he wasnt decent.

HIS BEHAVIOUR IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.

I suspect if you spend £200 on a laptop it will be so rubbish it won't work well anyway.

For what it's worth, I've just intervened at my son's school because he got a detention for not submitting homework on time. I would have told him to lump it - except that I saw him doing the homework on the computer a week ago. He didn't submit it. Well he did, but because of our unreliable connection it didn't go through. I don't think he should get a detention because Virgin Media don't provide the service they promise although of course he should have checked.

Anyway the teacher kindly relented and I have told my ds to make sure in future that it has definitely gone through. It doesn't help that the app has a big green tick on it which makes you think the homework has been completed!

The school should have its computer facilities open after school every day. I'd argue before school too, say for half an hour. Some people may have a public library nearby that they can use. But really, it's better to set homework to be done on paper. It saves this sort of hassle.

This nothing to do with this thread Helena so quite what you're on about I don't know but my family members are my responsibility and if my nieces and nephews were being financially abused by my brother I would kick his Arse or help their mum, it's why these deadbeats get away with it, nobody wants to deal with it not even within families

Pissedoff the answer is to campaign for better support for single parents not to pass the responsibilities on to other women.

I would have kicked my bros arse too IF he had behaved like that. His feet wouldnt have touched.

But someone like that just wont do it unless there are LAWS that make them.

A read of the Relationships board will tell you that.

Yeah cos that helps when you've no electricity, the key is to shame these men into doing the right thing or accept you're on your own I guess but currently they have it both ways don't they

I think if every mum, sister, potential girlfriend refused to have anything to do with a man who didn't support his children things would change rapidly tbh. But just as men need dirty women to have affairs with they need selfish ones to screw the kids over with, so it'll never happen. Women are our own worst enemies at times

Pisssedoff what is needed are more robust laws. Did you post on the CMS thread that was on the Site Stuff board a little while back?

Also a huge campaign would help. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and remember ppl treating drink driving as one big joke. Including comedians who would joke about it on tv.

But after the huge Chrismas campaigns against it we have had over the years (and the odd summer campaign too) drink driving is now taboo.

I dont think telling the female relatives to police the drinking habits of their male relatives and pour their whisky and their beers down the sink (instead of the anti drink driving campaigns) would have had the same impact.

Women should not be expected to police mens behaviour and it doesnt work anyway so i cant fathom why it keeps getting suggested time and time again.

I would NOT be involved with a man who did not pay his Child Support.

But that alone wouldnt be enough to make said man pay it!

It would if we all did it !
I honestly do not think it was the tv campaign that did the trick more the higher sentencing and public naming and shaming, but this is s female issue, it's ex wives and girlfriends that suffer so we should be the ones calling the men on it.