AIBU Fuming about face mask

[yan79]

Hi,
I don’t know if I’m just being a little sensitive but my 13 yo son returned to school on Monday after half term and has received a 1 hour after school detention for forgetting his face mask. I’m livid! It seems quite a punishment for something that isn’t a bad behaviour or intentional. Gosh, I forget my mask on a weekly basis and have to go back to the car to fetch it etc.
They don’t have to wear a mask in class (only on the corridors) he’s only ever forgotten his mask once since we started wearing them (he was in school the entire lockdown as I’m a NHS worker)
and school have a box of Masks for students that do forget them so he did wear one that day. It wasn’t even the teacher who gave out the detention, it was student services where he went when he realised he’d forgotten his mask and they provided him with one.
He’s a good lad and never really causes any commotion or trouble but he’s quite angry about this detention too. I’m tempted to call school and speak to somebody but I don’t know if I’m just being a little OTT and he deserves the detention and we should just ‘suck it up’

So now he has a spare, which might have been an idea in the first place. Ideally they would not wear the same mask all day anyway, though I'm sure many do

@Bythemillpond

fourminutestosavetheworld He did have a mask but the elastic broke

But he didn't tell the teacher that.

In the early days of the pandemic they were a lot more forgiving but it’s been more than year now, so I understand that they’re less forgiving.

Draconian! Some of you have lost the plot, he was given detention not flogged or stoned. When you’re managing god knows how many children, it gets harder to offer bespoke treatment for every god damn thing.

@Bythemillpond

fourminutestosavetheworld He did have a mask but the elastic broke

Doesn't change the fact that it was a ridiculous punishment for a minor offence. The teacher could see he had a mask as he held it over his face.

Your son has been punished for being responsible and going to get another mask! What a joke. Ring the school and say he's not going, they can't punish him for you not agreeing to detention. I'm sorry for the loss of your friend

YANBU. My DD’s high school has a huge box of masks in reception for those who forgot to bring their own. An hour’s detention is excessive and I would follow up with his head of year.

Did they give him/you notice, or did he have to do the detention that night?

Not sure why people are still telling op to complain. She already has. Misunderstanding. Detention withdrawn.