Detention with no notice

[Kensingtonia]

DD in year 7 given detention this afternoon after being late at school this morning. Bit annoyed as she had to miss an after school activity. Aren't schools meant to give 24 hours written notice or has this changed?

Lol at 'full investigation'!

After school detentions are a pain. The school finishes at 4pm. The bus is nearly half a mile away so the boys run as it leaves at 4.12. If they miss it they have to wait till 5.20 for the next one. I need them here to be carers.
Thank fuck one has finished for ever and ever and the second is moving into 6th form where they dont do detentions.
I think the 24 hour rule should be kept.

Rivenside, I would think most schools would keep the 24 hour rule for most detentions and only give same day detentions in rare cases where the student has persistently failed to turn up to arranged detentions. It just allows the school a little more flexibility.

Also in your case did the school not offer lunchtime detentions instead? I often allow students to do their time at lunchtime if there is a good reason. Depends on why they are in detention and to be honest who the student is.

No child need ever get a detention and certainly not an after school detention. After school detentions in my experience are given for persistent lateness, bad behaviour or lack of work .

At secondary children are old enough to know if an after school detention will cause great difficulty and they should then avoid getting them.

schools can detain for 30 minutes without 24 hour notice

purepurple - so do many other children! (my son includedl and he has had to miss a bus doe to a detention; his fault for the detention so he had to take the consequences)

There is a difference between missing a bus in London say, and missing the only bus that goes to your village, which means a six mile or more walk (either across countryside or down a very busy main road, no pavement), parents leaving work to take you home, you hanging around school until late etc.

But my kids school is reasonable, and also doesn't want to have kids just hanging around too late of an evening.

in the case of the OP, her DD was going to be late home anyway for the activity so the getting home issue obviously had already been planned for. Particularly with younger students, an immediate punishment is more effective. In our school there is only one after school det a week that we take turns to supervise (so you can have 20 odd kids in it) and everyone knows which day it is on. It is for major offenses and goes on until 5pm. If the incident occurred on the day after the det. day it is nearly a week before they are punished which reduces its impact. Schools have a duty of care to ensure they are not endangering a child by issuing a detention but they also have to have sanctions that are real and SHOULD involve a certain amount of inconvenience or missing things - it is a PUNISHMENT after all.