Are Detentions Necessary?

When getting punished in school, a detention is a standard-issue way to try to deal with problematic behaviour in students. Yet I feel this basic reason for a child receiving a detention is blown wide open, where there becomes a whole horde of reasons why they might end up with one.

I only came close to a detention once and that was for not getting enough answers in a test about Macbeth. I got one mark off getting half marks-the threshold I had to meet in order to avoid detention. However, after a marking snafus, I scraped by without receiving a lunchtime detention.

To me, detentions are about correcting inappropriate behaviour and encouraging children to work harder to achieve what they're capable of. Those struggling should receive extra support, but I feel like a detention can make boys and girls feel like they're naughty-and either they will like the sense of naughtiness and keep getting detentions, or they will improve their behaviour and perhaps not get one ever again.

So yes I think they are necessary personally, but it's up to the child as to whether they want to improve their performance or not.

Have you got any stories about getting detention and do you think they are necessary?

When getting punished in school, a detention is a standard-issue way to try to deal with problematic behaviour in students. Yet I feel this basic reason for a child receiving a detention is blown wide open, where there becomes a whole horde of reasons why they might end up with one.

I only came close to a detention once and that was for not getting enough answers in a test about Macbeth. I got one mark off getting half marks-the threshold I had to meet in order to avoid detention. However, after a marking snafus, I scraped by without receiving a lunchtime detention.

To me, detentions are about correcting inappropriate behaviour and encouraging children to work harder to achieve what they're capable of. Those struggling should receive extra support, but I feel like a detention can make boys and girls feel like they're naughty-and either they will like the sense of naughtiness and keep getting detentions, or they will improve their behaviour and perhaps not get one ever again.

So yes I think they are necessary personally, but it's up to the child as to whether they want to improve their performance or not.

Have you got any stories about getting detention and do you think they are necessary?

I got loads in school mostly for missing homework I don't feel they serve a purpose in the slightest I never lent anything from them and still forgot my home work sometimes I seriously feel though a 1/2 hour after school detention for homework of all things is a bit excessive.

I only came close to a detention once and that was for not getting enough answers in a test about Macbeth. I got one mark off getting half marks-the threshold I had to meet in order to avoid detention. However, after a marking snafus, I scraped by without receiving a lunchtime detention.

I think that would have been very unreasonable to have got a detention for that.

In my experience some of the times have probably reasonable but some have not. And most times were from the one teacher.

Whether they are necessary I don’t know but you notice the nicer teachers don’t need to give them as much as some others. Their classes are happier too.

I was in middle-set English, so I think a detention may have been appropriate as a way to get me up to speed-but for it to be a punishment is indeed harsh.

To be offered help would have been acceptable. But it would be unfair to treat it as a detention.

Did they give you more support to get upto speed?