Is this fair?

My school recently put forward weekly quizzes for each subject, which is reasonable, however, they added that if you get less than 80% per test, you will receive a 30 minute detention per subject.
This applies for sixth form too. Whilst the detentions aren’t stackable (you can’t have multiple on the same day), they do carry over.

My school recently put forward weekly quizzes for each subject, which is reasonable, however, they added that if you get less than 80% per test, you will receive a 30 minute detention per subject.
This applies for sixth form too. Whilst the detentions aren’t stackable (you can’t have multiple on the same day), they do carry over.

It depends: personally we need more information on what these quizzes are like.

Are they multiple choice or proper questions? Are you notified on the areas/topic they will test or is it general?

80% is discriminatory. Not everyone is working at such a level in the first place, and to introduce it off the bat punishes those who may be lagging behind regardless of their circumstances.

What would make sense is:

Prepare for these quizzes, if you fail them have you shown evidence of at least revising for them to not get a detention.

This above seems fairer.

My school recently put forward weekly quizzes for each subject, which is reasonable, however, they added that if you get less than 80% per test, you will receive a 30 minute detention per subject.
This applies for sixth form too. Whilst the detentions aren’t stackable (you can’t have multiple on the same day), they do carry over.

My school recently put forward weekly quizzes for each subject, which is reasonable, however, they added that if you get less than 80% per test, you will receive a 30 minute detention per subject.
This applies for sixth form too. Whilst the detentions aren’t stackable (you can’t have multiple on the same day), they do carry over.

My school recently put forward weekly quizzes for each subject, which is reasonable, however, they added that if you get less than 80% per test, you will receive a 30 minute detention per subject.
This applies for sixth form too. Whilst the detentions aren’t stackable (you can’t have multiple on the same day), they do carry over.

Update on the situation -
The tests are now daily, and a lot of parents have called in to complain yet the school seems to of done nothing.
They’ve done a lot of **** like this this year already - including having barriers on the toilets to block of access - they are taken off at break and lunch.

It’s usually 1-2 a day based on how many subjects you’re doing. I’m in Y12, doing 3 subjects so these are more distributed through the week, but I know some Y11’s that are really struggling with this due to the detention policy.
I genuinely can’t see this lasting until like Next term with the amount of complaints they’re getting. We used to only have like starter questions which really worked in a lot of subjects and a lot of people found really beneficial, I believe some years still have them but I don’t really talk to the other years bar like Y11/Y13 so I can’t be sure of that