Children doing after school detention

[Rhp1]

My son recently had to stay behind at school for half an hours detention for nothing in particular -( talking out of place in class) . He was given a days notice of this detention , but what i was wondering was , what authority if any do the teachers have to make him stay beyond the end of school day as this can cause safety issues on him returning home. This was a one off situation so i dont expect it to happen again.

[splunt]

I'm not a parent, but I'm floored to see how many posters on here are falling over themselves to preach at other people about how they should be raising their own kids.

Britain's school system is rotting so bad that kids are running out to riot. Students are crammed into increasingly overcrowded classrooms with less and less support staff. So it's pretty pathetic to argue that a kid deserves what he gets for disrupting the education system -- there's barely any system there to disrupt. When students get tossed into an disorganized mess of a classroom, they'll look around and recognize that there is very little structure and very little of value, and they'll react accordingly.

Arbitrary school punishments are a way to avoid dealing with the actual costs of educating people, downloading those costs instead onto students and parents. It's a pain to think about, because it means that even non-parents like me have to take responsibility for keeping the school system from crumbling. Maybe that's why people are eager to dump their responsibility onto other people's children by arguing that "every kid that gets punished by this system was obviously a brat who deserved it." The cowardice is incredible.

[DrunkenClam]

I would write a letter to them and maybe a head of year over the matter stating that you do not want him to have the detention and why.

[Jaline]

This is obviously a few years later, but xanderma I cannot seriously understand parents like yourself. I am 26 myself now, but I think back whenever someone mentions of X age child walking home by themselves or doing anything without their parent as if it is such an achievement or as if they are taking a hugesecurity risk. Think back to your own childhood, how old were you when you started to be on your own? I don't mean moving out, I mean going places on your own. For me, I would say I was around 7.. and that is not just walking home from school. That is the streetto friend. Around the neighborhood, and so on. That is simple stuff, but still you said your daughter walking home by herself at 12 is a security issue... By 10 I was walking around Harvard University campus by myself, no I don't mean to sound like a bigshot, my dad worked, funny enough, security in their libraries. That is also an understatement, because I would also take the subway system myself, walk around a number of areas accessible by subways, and then return to take a commuter train home, and get a cab the rest of the way, which waitring on a cab is like 20 minutes at 8pm.. what kind of horrible place must the world be 16 years later that a twelve year old cannot walk home by herself likely a similar way you did at nine? It is parents like this that make kids so screwed up these days, over-protective, shadowing, have to be there every moment, every person you do not know will lure you into a van and take you away. The world is only bad because of how you fear anything outside your home walls, that does not make the world bad or dangerous, that makes you paranoid. How is the world outside so bad when so many people are good people, not everyone is out to get your kids...

[sarahshannon82]

I too have just recieved this attitude over my son getting an hours detention for ME not signing his homework book he's 12 and while I suppport the teachers and system I am a working parent who works shifts so for me I have to know where my son is and have very specific arrangements which cannot be broken, if it was a lunchtime etc this would not worry me and also safety is a biggie with me as he bikes to and from and as winter is coming it does get dark around 4.30/ 5.00 and no i don't want my son out even with lights I mean god what kind of parents would we be if we didnt worry and just let them do whatever.. come on look at the recent April case or the case where teens have left school and never returned home, this isnt about us worrying about seats on school buses etc and actually as I have said I do agree for behaviour that it is necessary but come on not getting a homework diary signed.. really? I worked within the teaching field for 5 years and understand both sides