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How do after school detentions work in your school?

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TheOrigRights · 08/02/2023 14:34

I am curious to know how after school detentions are managed in your schools?
I'm not interested in why they are given, more the management of them i.e. how you are informed, how much notice is given, and how you are able to communicate with the school if you have a question, again not about the nature of the sanction but the management of the detention.

Thanks

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Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 14:36

No after school detentions whatsoever. All at lunchtimes

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TheOrigRights · 08/02/2023 16:01

Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 14:36

No after school detentions whatsoever. All at lunchtimes

So you don't have anything to contribute to this discussion then.

Detention for you for not reading the question.

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Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 16:04

Tumbleweed

Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 16:05

What can I say… I feel sorry for empty threads! 😂

legalseagull · 08/02/2023 16:38

Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 14:36

No after school detentions whatsoever. All at lunchtimes

I'd say this is a pretty valid contribution to your thread and certainly not worthy of a snarky reply. Some schools accept after school detentions can't be managed. Kids have parents collecting them / buses to catch. Lunch time makes far more sense.

MyNameIsErinQuin · 08/02/2023 16:39

One hour, same day as rule breaking

warnc007 · 08/02/2023 16:47

In my school parents are emailed with at least 24 hours notice, the email lets them know when and where it will take place and the reason for it.

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TheOrigRights · 08/02/2023 16:47

legalseagull · 08/02/2023 16:38

I'd say this is a pretty valid contribution to your thread and certainly not worthy of a snarky reply. Some schools accept after school detentions can't be managed. Kids have parents collecting them / buses to catch. Lunch time makes far more sense.

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I am aware of the arguments for and against after school detentions.

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Whatislove82 · 08/02/2023 16:51

legalseagull · 08/02/2023 16:38

I'd say this is a pretty valid contribution to your thread and certainly not worthy of a snarky reply. Some schools accept after school detentions can't be managed. Kids have parents collecting them / buses to catch. Lunch time makes far more sense.

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Cheers

but I reckon op stressed as her son has got a detention and it messes up logistics for her this evening so I thought 🤷‍♀️

gogohmm · 08/02/2023 17:09

My kids school gave 24 hours notice but you could request before school or 2x 30 mins lunchtime for transportation or family reasons. Many of the kids had to collect their siblings from the primary school next door (high school finished at 3.05, the primary at 3.15

hourbyhour101 · 08/02/2023 17:10

Look dentitions are supposed to annoy the parent.

Because schools know that the only way to get the child to listen is if the parent supports them. So they have to make sure it's as inconvenient as possible so a parent brings down hell on their child and not just say oh Jonny that's nice don't worry about those mean teachers.

Most detentions I know are given 24hr notice but for repeat offenders I know some have been received the same day. Communication either via email or in the child's book/online portal (mostly both) because any teacher with any sense will know a child will hide the book (if they have one) so not to get into trouble with their parents.

They don't have the time to be calling the parents will most likely will argue it doesn't work for them (duh that's the point) but this wouldn't have been a parents first red flag about a child's behaviour, parents evenings are a thing and people do love to gloss over problems until it inconveniences them. Enter detentions.

And here's the thing if the behaviour doesn't stop (if it's really bad) they will get excluded for a certain time period and then you will be really ticked off.

Teachers don't give them out because they fancy staying behind for a couple of houses after school because that's how they like to spend their time. They do it because either your child has interfered with their own education (not doing homework) or interfered with someone else's child's room education and a parents annoyance about being inconvenienced is just not as important as correcting the behaviour of all the party's involved and that's not just the child's.

This won't be a popular opinion but I said what I said

greenacrylicpaint · 08/02/2023 17:15

dc's school doesn't have detentions at all (not in uk).
children who misbehave get extra homework or extra help once the reason is identified.

maddy68 · 08/02/2023 17:17

No notice given if less than 20 mins. By law no notice needs to be given but common sense prevails in most schools.
24 hrs notice for a Next day detention
Text home is given

Itstarts · 08/02/2023 17:19

DCs school give a few days notice on the school app that all parents & pupils have. The app automates an email too.

DoesItMakeYouFeelBetter · 08/02/2023 17:22

Yes, same day and I get a text to inform me. I can then log onto a system and see why they have it. It’s is usually well-deserved!

MoneyInTheBananaStand · 08/02/2023 17:24

Same day detention if given before lunch. Parents notified via text. If there's trains they can't do it that day - collecting siblings, medical appointment etc they can ring the school & get head of year to reschedule

Babdoc · 08/02/2023 17:35

My DDs went to a school that served a huge rural hinterland in Perthshire. The only way for most pupils to get home at all was on the fleet of school buses that headed off round the various villages, so after school detentions were impossible.
The school still managed to instil reasonable discipline and behaviour.

Dacadactyl · 08/02/2023 17:41

They say in the behaviour policy that they try to give parents 24 hours of an after school detention, with the caveat that the Head does not need to give parents this notice at all and can tell the child to stay on any given day.

On the one occasion DD had an after school detention they rang me that day to tell me she was having one that evening.

If a child doesn't go to it, DD tells me that all the buses are stopped from leaving the school and SLT or the Head go looking for the child on the buses. If the child still refuses to go or can't be found, they are either put in the inclusion room the next day or given a suspension.

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 08/02/2023 17:44

Only 2 a week on a Friday from 6 to 7 or Sat am at 8.15. But it is a boarding school. Having an early start and needing to register somewhere else is more unpopular.

eatdrinkandbemerry · 08/02/2023 17:51

You sound like a knob 🤷‍♀️I wouldn't give you a detention I'd just permanently exclude you 🤣

Dacadactyl · 08/02/2023 18:30

@TheOrigRights are you a parent or a teacher?

How does your/your children's school manage after school detentions?

Itgoesalittlesomethinglikethis · 08/02/2023 18:40

DD had half hour detention after school today. I found out about it yesterday from her and received a message on the online portal (reason given for detention but not when it's happening). DD tells me the details. She got it for forgetting a P.E kit numerous times. It's a rough area so we didn't want her getting public transport home, luckily it's DH's day off today otherwise it would have been tricky. I was working. She has had an hour detention earlier in the year for being defiant (deputy said it was extreme for what she did). I don't knock their system if it keeps students in check. I just don't like that it's after school.

BooksAndHooks · 08/02/2023 18:46

45 min detentions. Notified via detentions page in student planner that we have to sign. At least 24 hours notice for after school detentions.

MyFlagMeansIceCream · 08/02/2023 18:50

No after school ones due to transport issues in a rural area.

Jaxx · 08/02/2023 19:14

Same day detentions - parents are notified by email sometime in the afternoon.

If you have questions you are told to email form teacher.