After School Detentions... The Reason Why Teachers Like Them

So, this is one of those subjects, that to be honest really pisses me off. My son goes to a school, in which, to response of the children not bringing homework in on time... they receive a detention. Not being funny but, our children are at school to learn, they get their homework, which to me is far too much, and half of the homework that the students these days are asked to complete at home, is just bullshit, (however that is for another blog). Now if my son does not hand his homework in on time, then he will receive a 45 minute detention after school. The reason for this, and this was straight from the words of a teacher at my son's school, is simply this. "By giving our students an after school detention, it takes away the students free time, and is therefore a punishment". Well, to be honest, his school can shove it up their arse, because I will simply NOT allow him to have an after school detention.

By giving students an after school detention, us as parents have to then re-arrange what we have to do, and when we have other children, or we work, or other things going on it is very difficult. Yes I know, the teachers feel that they have covered that dilemma, by basically saying, they HAVE to give us 24 hours notice if they want our children for after school detention. Well sorry, bollocks to you Mr and Miss Teacher... in my family it simply will not happen. I have said it before, and will keep on saying it. After school detentions do not work, and I am the parent and I decided what my child does after school, and I do not want to have to juggle my day around in order to make sure that my child gets picked up from school. If a child has been that naughty, or unruly and that needs a detention, or as the teachers out it Free Time taken away from them, then this needs to be done in the teachers time, in school, since it is to do with school, not in my time. Every time my child receives an after school detention, I will be emailing the school, telling well, actually, no, my child is not doing an after school detention.

Yeah I know, I am probably out of order, and lots of parents are probably sitting there reading this and wondering why I feel the need to stop my children being punished.... To you parents, I say this... I simply will not allow a child to have to stay at school longer than they should. They are children, and they deserve to live their lives as children, they grow up far too quick as it is. I am not against punishment, far from it, but saying that an after school detention is the only way, and that is because it takes away their free time, well to be honest how fucking childish does that sound??? It sounds like the teachers are almost as immature than the teenagers that they are supposed to be setting an example too. If my son has done something really awful, then yes he should be given a detention in school, or suspended etc, but it's a big no to after school detentions, whatever he does wrong in school he will be punished for in school. Having a detention for not handing in homework, well, if thats is what teachers of today are like then it really is no wonder the students have no respect for them.