Post by SwattieGalo on Feb 12, 2016 16:31:50 GMT -6
As I write this, I am fulfilling my "punishment" for getting three tardies: Detention.
What is the point of detention anyways? Is the educational system really making me stay an extra hour after school because I came to school late? The punishment for not getting to school in time is just... more school?
Honestly, detention isn't that bad... heck, I wish I had detention every single day of the week. The library is silent, I can work in peace, and there are other people here too which means I am less susceptible to get distracted by my own computer. Detention is an acknowledgement, a recognition, that school in itself is a punishment. School is a prison. School is bad.
Hold up. I am not saying education is bad. But I am saying that the current educational system we have is bad for many many reasons. The failure of the educational system is reflected in the practice of detention through the authoritarian position the administration believes they should take and the evident lack of understanding between students and faculty. I mean... does the administration really really think that an hour in the library will change my life? Is sitting and working in a quiet and well ventilated room a form of punishment that I really want to avoid? Will it really eliminate the reasons as to why I am late? Will it motivate me to go to school earlier?
Uhmmm... No...
In fact, to protest this ludicrous and petty practice of detention by tardiness, I am going to come tardy every single day for the next 2 weeks! Watch me skip school. Watch me come to school and skip OFFICIAL attendance. Watch me not getting breakfast.
WELL... I know that I wouldn't go through with anything I said above, but you know what, the opposite is not true. There is no evidence whatsoever that says that putting kids in detention for coming tardy will reduce their tardiness frequency.
"Oh, but a detention can forever get in your academic record!"
Uhmmm... So...?
I am a second semester senior in a coma bed suffering from metastasized senioritis. I already got accepted to a bomb-ass college with a crazy good financial aid package. You think a detention will really compel me to avoid my morning coffee to get earlier to school?
My point with this is that detention is not a punishment for people like me (Or really for anyone). Tardies should simply be marked as absences after 3 tardies. There are no real benefits to coming in early other than getting some lame breakfast, give me reasons to want me to come early and I'll do it.
Should detention exist?
What is the point of detention anyways? Is the educational system really making me stay an extra hour after school because I came to school late? The punishment for not getting to school in time is just... more school?
Honestly, detention isn't that bad... heck, I wish I had detention every single day of the week. The library is silent, I can work in peace, and there are other people here too which means I am less susceptible to get distracted by my own computer. Detention is an acknowledgement, a recognition, that school in itself is a punishment. School is a prison. School is bad.
Hold up. I am not saying education is bad. But I am saying that the current educational system we have is bad for many many reasons. The failure of the educational system is reflected in the practice of detention through the authoritarian position the administration believes they should take and the evident lack of understanding between students and faculty. I mean... does the administration really really think that an hour in the library will change my life? Is sitting and working in a quiet and well ventilated room a form of punishment that I really want to avoid? Will it really eliminate the reasons as to why I am late? Will it motivate me to go to school earlier?
Uhmmm... No...
In fact, to protest this ludicrous and petty practice of detention by tardiness, I am going to come tardy every single day for the next 2 weeks! Watch me skip school. Watch me come to school and skip OFFICIAL attendance. Watch me not getting breakfast.
WELL... I know that I wouldn't go through with anything I said above, but you know what, the opposite is not true. There is no evidence whatsoever that says that putting kids in detention for coming tardy will reduce their tardiness frequency.
"Oh, but a detention can forever get in your academic record!"
Uhmmm... So...?
I am a second semester senior in a coma bed suffering from metastasized senioritis. I already got accepted to a bomb-ass college with a crazy good financial aid package. You think a detention will really compel me to avoid my morning coffee to get earlier to school?
My point with this is that detention is not a punishment for people like me (Or really for anyone). Tardies should simply be marked as absences after 3 tardies. There are no real benefits to coming in early other than getting some lame breakfast, give me reasons to want me to come early and I'll do it.
Should detention exist?
