Child in all day detention for something they didn't do.

[rooby252]

Hi,
I'm just trying to see if this is common practice in secondary schools really.
One of my children was kept in an all day detention for 1.5 days for something that happened after school and he wasn't responsible for.
He was at a bus stop with a few other children from his year group (year 8) and another boy threw a plastic bottle on to the floor. It bounced off the floor. It didn't hit anyone or anything and didn't break.
A teacher apparently saw the incident and saw my son wasn't involved, but the school kept the 4 children in detention for 1.5 days- knowing exactly who had thrown the bottle- waiting to see if the boy responsible would own up.
They missed out on all lessons, just doing work they had already done in year 7.
I feel really angry about it but am thinking this might just be how school do things these days?

One of my favourites was the child that got a detention for "only walking into the room "

He was 10 minutes late
He entered the room announcing loudly to the class that he had arrived,
mad his way slowly to his seat across the front of the board calling out to his friends as he went.
Put his back and coat on the chair with his usual flourish (fucking about)
Walked over to his friend to ask what we were doing.
Walked back to his seat, made a huge deal of finding his notes/equipment.
Then would loudly announce that he was ready for work but couldn't as I was refusing to tell him"

How many times should a teacher have to put up with this before they get a sanction?

Yet he was "just entering the classroom."

All teachers will have a similar story/stories.

And all teachers that have these stories will at some point have had crappy emails from the parents and often a telling off from SLT for behaviour management.

This. Copy and paste but with the distraction for classrooms en route for the threads complaining about why children are no longer allowed to the toilets in lesson time.