Did you ever receive school detention?

Not in elementary or high school but I did get "dormed" my freshman year in college.

My roommate and I missed curfew by five minutes once and had to appear before the next "Dorm Council", which consisted of four sour-faced upperclass(women)....no mixed dorms back then....who were dedicated to making sure nobody had fun.

We were sentenced (as much as the sourpusses would like public flogging and time in the stocks along with a scarlet letter, they were limited to dorming) to be in our room no later than 7 p.m. for one Friday and Saturday night.

We certainly learned our lesson, we did. After that, we made sure we snuck in a window instead of the door.
 
Bretrick said:
It's a old punishment dates back a long way...does it do any good?
Never had detention in my school days in Tasmania.
If one stuffed up, it was the cane on the hands as punishment.
No "Lines", no extra homework, etc.
I never knew how the girls were punished.
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No detention for us... we got belted instead....

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Only a couple of times
Neither we nor the teacher wanted to be there for the hour after classes
The routine was to open a book and fall asleep

We always wondered what the teacher had done to draw that detention party assignment :ROFLMAO:
... and our imaginations ran wild. WILD

There were also demerits and a physical ed teacher had a long wooden paddle with drilled holes that got used on occasion
 
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When I was in grade school I got sent to the office to get the strap. The principle took me into his office and merely talked to me really nice. He asked if I thought I deserved a strap and I told him I get enough punishment from home. He chuckled and decided not to punish me. We had a nice little talk. A talk I’ll remember for the rest of my life. He was a nice gentle man.

Another time a student complained about one of our teachers so we all got punished. We had to sit straight in our desks and watch the clock which was on the side wall . We had to watch it for 45 minutes without moving. We all had sore necks. I think a lot of students complained to their parents and she got into more trouble! Lol 😂
 
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I only had detention once for kissing my girlfriend. The Assistant Principal gave me one day’s detention after school until 4:30. We were playing our rival school on Friday night and my detention was on Friday, so I knew I was going to have to rush home after school and drop stuff off and pick up my uniform and polish my cleats and hustle back to school for a 7:00 kickoff.

As I was leaving school, I got a note from the Principal that my detention was suspended until Monday. I forgot about it and I guess everyone else did too because I never made it up.
 
All the time, plus suspensions, and let's not forget white slips from the bus drivers. I've was tied in my chair, placed in a large box in a coat room, even tossed off the school bus in the middle of the route miles from home.

Historic fact. In eighth grade I was the first kid in our school system to receive "inner school suspension". They placed a desk in a supply closet and that's where I sat for three days, whatever teacher was guarding me had to sit at a desk in the hallway because there was no room for a second desk in the closet.

I give the school and teachers credit for trying to deal with me, but honestly they didnt know how to handle a kid like me, I was a real shit.
 
In Junior high, I was detained after school along with the class and accused of stealing something from the teacher,. The other students were advised to avoid me. The teacher later found out who had really stolen the item, whatever that item might have been, and he privately apologized. But he never informed the class of my innocence.
 
Our detentions consisted of two hours on Saturday and we had to wear our school uniform.
I don't actually recall how many times I had to do it.....four or five, half dozen maybe.
I was caned once......"six of the best" for assaulting a prefect. At the time I thought he deserved it. Stupid move for me to do. Our history teacher advised me to consider the wisdom of Sun Tzu.........don't engage in battles you cannot win.
I had to learn some lessons the hard way back then.
 
It was being hit with leather belts(randomly, with little reason) in 5th & 6th grade parochial school. 7th-8th & 9th grade was well behaved in public jr. high school. 10th and 11th grade logged many an hour in detention. By 12th grade I found the solution- I dropped out of high school and joined the Army...hands down the best piece of decision making I did, as a teenager.
 
Yes, I was given detention, which I did not attend. Given detention again, which I did not attend. 3rd time, suspended which I was happy to attend. The only problem was I had to go with my mother to have a meeting with the Dean of Girls for the district to have permission to return to school.

Yes, I went with Mom. She happened to meet a nice lady there who became her best friend for life. I took my Mom to this lady's funeral when she died. There were friends for 40 years.

My crime, I chose to skip school to layout on the roof of my house. Every girl needs a tan when summer is coming.
 
never got a detention k-12. never even cut a class in HS.

i remember a history class in college. BIG class... at 8:00. professor gave copious notes and that's what tests were based on. joined forces with a few other people for who would attend and then swap notes. we'd show up at end of the class to sign in "late". prof told us he really didn't care if we showed up or not. after that, we used the same system but didn't try to make it look like we had been there all along.

when i first started teaching (1973), paddling was still allowed.
 
I felt like I lived in detention all through Junior High. I have never been a morning person. Strangely elementary school and High School didn't (that I can remember) punish being late, but Junior High assigned me to after-school detention.

It was okay, they kept us quiet (always a bunch of other kids in detention too, tho I don't know what their crimes were), so I got my homework done. And I didn't mind walking home.
 
Blessed said:
Yes, I was given detention, which I did not attend. Given detention again, which I did not attend. 3rd time, suspended which I was happy to attend. The only problem was I had to go with my mother to have a meeting with the Dean of Girls for the district to have permission to return to school.

Yes, I went with Mom. She happened to meet a nice lady there who became her best friend for life. I took my Mom to this lady's funeral when she died. There were friends for 40 years.

My crime, I chose to skip school to layout on the roof of my house. Every girl needs a tan when summer is coming.
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What comes to mind is 1st year high school science class. I got told to report back for detention for what I think was talking in class. What the teacher really needed was a few guys to wash out some test tubes and beakers from the day's experiments. I felt so used. I hated science class. Not only did I not understand it but I got given some slave labor to do under the false guise of discipline. I talked plenty of time in that class but only once had to stay back as "punishment".
 
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What comes to mind is 1st year high school science class. I got told to report back for detention for what I think was talking in class. What the teacher really needed was a few guys to wash out some test tubes and beakers from the day's experiments. I felt so used. I hated science class. Not only did I not understand it but I got given some slave labor to do under the false guise of discipline. I talked plenty of time in that class but only once had to stay back as "punishment".
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Another abuse freshman, get used to it!
 
No, but I frequently received bad conduct grades because I was bored in class and acted up with some of my friends. We would frequently throw spitballs in class. I went to a Southern Baptist private high school. There was no such thing as detention but as @Naturally mentioned our coach had a long wooden paddle with drilled holes. I felt the wrath of it once. That was enough.

In junior high, a friend and I skipped school and hung out at a 7/11, acted like big shots and smoked all day. He was a latchkey kid and his mother always left her Marlboros at his house. We would smoke and he would play head-banging rock music. Mind you, I was an A student throughout but I wanted to hang out with the rockers, smokers and potheads. Probably why my parents sent me to a Southern Baptist high school!
 

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