Did you ever receive school detention?

Got the strap once in elementary school, for something someone else had done. Detentions in high school for being late to school.
 
After my mother passed away at age 98, my niece was going thru her (my mother's) paperwork. Niece found a page of notebook paper where I had to write "I will not talk in class" 100 times. 5th or 6th grade?? 1956 or 57? God Bless my mother for keeping that memento for over 60 years
 

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I never received an individual detention, but once when a teacher decided that the whole class was behaving abominably, the whole class was assigned after school detention! The amount of negative energy generated within that detention room was incredible, and to my knowledge that teacher never did that again.

A form of group punishment was also implemented when someone swiped the Phys. Ed teacher’s key set. We were made to stand at attention for the duration of successive gym classes in the hopes I guess that someone would rat out the perp. This went on until several students fainted from being made to stand at attention for a full class period, after which time the group punishment stopped…
 
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I went to small rural schools with long bus rides from home to school for most students. Detention wasn't a workable punishment because the parents would rebel if they had to make hours long round trips to pick up their errant kid. Offenses were left for the parents to handle. Mine was a place and time when the school board listened to the community.
 
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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Detention, no, but sometimes an unruly class would be "kept in" for 10 minutes or so at the beginning of lunch time.

I did receive the cane once while in primary school but the law in NSW prohibited caning of girls once they turned 12, which meant that no girls were ever caned in secondary school.

As a teacher at a girls secondary school, a common punishment was to report to the playground duty teacher for the second half of lunch time and have to pick up papers and other rubbish from the asphalt playground.

A variation of the above was to report to a classroom to remove chewing gum from under the desks.

For recidivists, there was detention on Friday afternoons when everyone else was engaging in activities such as sport, candle making, dance or yoga. They spent the 2 hours in silence with absolutely nothing to do, not even writing out lines. They hated that.
 
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