Detention

[rushgirl28]

I was disgusted when I found my boy got detention because he didn't get enough spellings right in a test.And we worked hard on

They do at my child's primary school. If you get a very low result then you haven't learnt the words so they assume they haven't done the HW.
No spellings at secondary school though. Not in English at any rate. They do get vocabulary to learn in French etc.

Maybe it was spellings and what words meant - put them in a sentence. As you say you worked together on the spellings so seems harsh to be given a detention.

I did redo my English when I left school this post isn't about me.

Did he tell you that the detention was for spellings or did school? If school did, then I'd be down there to complain asap.
If he did, I'd check with the school first before going in all guns blazing as he could have got it for a different, legitimate reason which he doesn't want to admit to.

Yes Wolfie. Not since about 2011/12 if I remember rightly. They don't actually have to say why a detention has been issued either but I imagine in practice most do. It's on the www.gov.uk web site.

Are you sure that's why he got it? I think at senior school ( my dd's and a friends dd's anyway) they are supposed to write sentenances with the words in them. If the homework wasn't done then they would get a detention. Can you list some of the words?

That's why I,m going to talk to the school I never take my son's word for it lol.He gets things wrong

Thanks sooty. We do still seem to get notice. Thank goodness. DS has had one after school in over3 years but I would hate (well not really like much!) to leave him stranded at school!

Actually no! It'd serve him right for getting a detention!
I'm a horrible mother!

I think each time he learns them he should write them down but he says he only has say them to me.Then there's no evidence.

I agree with you OP about your son writing the spellings down. I think that would definitely help him to learn them more than if he just says them out loud.

Then he could show the teacher that he did do the homework.

My 13yo would spend his life in detention on these grounds!

His spelling age is 6.3 yrs

And staying behind after school is not acceptable for 'extra' or Sen support either. You cannot say "you have a learning difficulty so finish school at 4 and you don't so can go home at 3.30"

I thank you all for your views on this I'm sorry I,m able to list the words and the meanings.He has had a new list I looked I think I,m going to be ok this week.

Really weird! I would expect a poor spelling test to result in a re-test after a day or two... a detention surely is for when it is clear that a pupil has repeatedly failed to attempt their spellings. Even if a high performing pupil does very badly in a test, surely the teacher should be finding out why before just filing out a detention!

Filing?? Flinging... I think, oh Lawks a random typing moment!!

I got a lunchtime detention at secondary for getting too low a mark on a French spelling test. It was as a result of changing my handwriting to a strange "a" which looked like a "d". When I explained the teacher still gave the detention but advised that I reconsider my handwriting.

Thankfully parents weren't informed of lunchtime detentions... until recently my parents believed all three of us had had none!

I have my son write each of his spellings three times, then i test him on each. I do this every night for the four nights before his test. Ive been doing this three weeks and he has gone from getting 0 each week to full marks. It takes repetition to make it stick.

Agree with highwaydragon1 exactly the same in my school. It is not punishing lack of ability, it takes SEND into account.

My son 's school gives detention of they get less than 50% in Spanish vocab tests. Makes homework to reach over half marks and the level isn't set too high. Seems fair enough to me.
Did he know he could get a detentions Before the test ?

One of my daughter’s teachers tried that this term. I called the head of year and made it quite clear that if the teacher tried to use the behaviour policy for a lack of academic ability I would simply collect my child at 3pm every day until the teacher in question understood that he was being ridiculous. Head of year agreed that punishing a child who is otherwise very diligent with homework with a detention for a lack of spelling ability was not on. There has been no further mention of detentions

Wow, go you .

My son 's school gives detention of they get less than 50% in Spanish vocab tests. Makes homework to reach over half marks and the level isn't set too high. Seems fair enough to me.

If my ds teacher tried to do this with his German I'd be fuming. Ds can't spell in English! He does lexia 4 times a week. He fails all the spelling homework from subjects. He tries harder than most - that should not be punished.

Yournotkidding. My ds2 has dyslexia and struggles with spelling BUT I know school give him strategies to help with vocab and plenty of support to learn them. This means he is able to achieve over half marks. He won't reach 90% or even 70 but can manage 50 so it is fair to set a consequence .

Dyspraxia not dyslexia - interesting use of auto correct !

He got detention for something else then. Bet you a tenner.