Disciplinary Actions in High School?

[sarajean94]

Ahh nevermind.

[33girl]

LOL. Any sorority that would cut you for having detention would be super turbo lame. Is detention really considered a "disciplinary action"?

(Yet another between my generation and today. Shoot, if you got out of my high school WITHOUT ever having detention, people thought there was something seriously wrong with you. I was actually relieved when I got it my senior year.)

[Kevin]

Is it on your "permanent record"? I hear those are permanent.

[Titchou]

If you had been sent to alternative school or something of that nature, it might show on your transcript and "people" might know. If it was a one day detention for texting I doubt seriously anyone cares. Then again, if the police escorted you to detention, that would be known!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

(Yet another between my generation and today. Shoot, if you got out of my high school WITHOUT ever having detention, people thought there was something seriously wrong with you. I was actually relieved when I got it my senior year.)

I got what we called in-school detention -- spending a few school days in a special classroom in the office area, where you still had to do your work and where contact with students not in detention was not allowed. Well, it wasn't allowed except for when I had to briefly leave the detention classroom and go preside over the induction of new members of the National Honor Society, of which I was president. Most of the teachers thoroughly enjoyed the humor of that.

Somehow, I still got a bid.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Then again, if the police escorted you to detention, that would be awesome!

FYP, LOL.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I got what we called in-school detention -- spending a few school days in a special classroom in the office area, where you still had to do your work and where contact with students not in detention was not allowed. Well, it wasn't allowed except for when I had to briefly leave the detention classroom and go preside over the induction of new members of the National Honor Society, of which I was president. Most of the teachers thoroughly enjoyed the humor of that.

Somehow, I still got a bid.

You can't tell this story without telling us what you did to get in detention!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AGDee

You can't tell this story without telling us what you did to get in detention!

It sounds better if I say I was skipping school. I, along with quite a few others, participated in an extracurricular activity during the morning. Then I went home for lunch. (Seniors could leave school for lunch.) I had been pretty much going non-stop for weeks if not months, so my dad told me I could stay home that afternoon and get some rest if I wanted to.

That afternoon, my mother (the principal of an elementary school) got home and had a fit, since the rule was in order to participate in any extracurricular activity part of the day, you had to be in class the rest of the day. (My dad got the blame from her, not me.) About 8 of us (some of whom really were skipping) got in-school detention for 2 days.

See, just plain "skipping" sounds better.

[sigmagirl2000]

My students today wouldn't be willing to get up early for any extracurricular. MysticCat was clearly a super motivated teen.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

My students today wouldn't be willing to get up early for any extracurricular. MysticCat was clearly a super motivated teen.

LOL. Not that motivated, though. It was during school hours in the morning -- a performance of the spring musical for the junior high school. (I was Prof. Henry Higgins.)

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Then again, if the police escorted you to detention, that would be known!

I've had more than one student leave my classroom this way. And, where I live, we don't call them police. They're called the SRO (a la School Resource Officer)--they are members of the police force assigned to serve the school.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Is it on your "permanent record"? I hear those are permanent.

Laughed harder at this than I should have. I should go to bed.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

I've had more than one student leave my classroom this way. And, where I live, we don't call them police. They're called the SRO (a la School Resource Officer)--they are members of the police force assigned to serve the school.

One that I know about was actually the sheriff's deputies...and they really hauled her out in handcuffs....real, honest arrest - not SRO....

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

It sounds better if I say I was skipping school. I, along with quite a few others, participated in an extracurricular activity during the morning. Then I went home for lunch. (Seniors could leave school for lunch.) I had been pretty much going non-stop for weeks if not months, so my dad told me I could stay home that afternoon and get some rest if I wanted to.

That afternoon, my mother (the principal of an elementary school) got home and had a fit, since the rule was in order to participate in any extracurricular activity part of the day, you had to be in class the rest of the day. (My dad got the blame from her, not me.) About 8 of us (some of whom really were skipping) got in-school detention for 2 days.

See, just plain "skipping" sounds better.

Somehow, I knew it wouldn't be something egregious!

Now that my kids have established themselves as hardworking students with good grades, I have relaxed that rule out of concern for their level of exhaustion too. I'd side with Dad on that one.

[AlphaFrog]

I received two detentions, but only had to serve one. One was after school and the Dean told us to go outside and play in the snow (you weren't allowed to stay in the building after a certain hour) - so we did - and another teacher came and gave us detentions for snowball fighting.

The one I did serve was for a dresscode violation. We had to wear khakis that were NOT jeans style. I had this pair that I wore all the time that had embroidered flowers all up the back, but I didn't get called on it until second semester senior year, and then it wasn't the flowers but because the pants had rivets which made them jeans. I was irked that I got away with it until the 11th hour, and then it was the RIVETS not the GIANT FLOWERS I was called on.