So I have detention duty this week. We have this system, a teacher detention is for minor infractions and the individual teacher handles it (15 minutes after school usually). An administrative detention is the big one and we are open for business on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45 to 3:30. Each teacher serves one week of detention duty, which means, 2 afternoons.
To get a handle on the "no cell phones during the academic day" rule, our new principal has established that any teacher seeing a cell phone between 8 and 2:30 is to take it, turn it in to the office, and that student gets a "BIG" detention. So I realized this afternoon that when I took "Susie's" cell phone in period 5 study hall today, I would be seeing her in Thursday detention.
I don't really like detention duty. Last year I wrote a poem during detention that was titled "Why I Hate Detention Duty". I will post it if I can find it.
On the other hand, I only have 5 students and they are being really good. The angry one put his head down, the young one is playing with his pen, the freshman is reading his free read book for my class (yay!) and the two upperclassmen are both doing geometry. And I am blogging.
I just have one question. If the BIG detention is called an Administrative Detention, and it is assigned by the Administration, why isn't the Administration covering detention duty? I'm just saying...
I'm curious what the detention situation is like in other schools??
It sounds a lot like our detention duty. We are assigned it for a week and it runs every day from 2:30-3:15. We have been trying to crack down on kids tardy to school (on the 4th tardy it is a detention). That brought numbers up some last year. Some students feel it is better not to come to school at all then to get a tardy. Ugh. We call ours "office detention," yet it is the staff that monitors. :) P.S. Our school internet filters any blogs so I can't work on my blog (or read any) at school at all!
ReplyDeleteWe're supposed to give detentions for tardy students, so I rarely assign them. It's more punishment for me.
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