I’ve seen in a lot of TV shows that characters can get Saturday detention. Is this legit? If so, what’s it like? Do the teachers have to come in on the weekends? How much of the school has to stay open? How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?
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Yeah. We sure did. But it wasn’t fun or cool like The Breakfast Club. It sucked badly.
We never had weekend detention at my school.
We had “Saturday Academy” and I don’t know why they called it that. But it wasn’t at the school. Somewhere else. You’d sit there and do school work in silence. And you’d only get a Saturday after you got in trouble a bunch of times.
We also had after school detention, and lunch detention usually for first offenses.
First, I have no idea how common this is. No kids, and I was never bad enough to get that level of punsihment.
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How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?They would take attendance.
>How much of the school has to stay open?
Most schools have plenty going on during the weekends. It isn’t like they disconnect the power at the end of every school day.
You ever seen the documentary known as The Breakfast Club? It’s like that. Your average high school student has their life and outlook on other people changed through dramatic monologues given during detention at least 14 times over the course of their high school career.
>how did they make sure you guys came in
…it’s called taking attendance.
My highschool had it. Teachers would rotate who would do it. It was only for more serious offenses or multiple detentions in a semester. It was 6 hours long and sometimes they had to help the janitorial staff. If you don’t come in you get suspended or expelled.
There was Saturday detention at my school. I never got it, but from what I understand, it was 3 hours of assisting the janitor with thinks like scraping gum from the underside of desks.
We had Saturday School. Also had after school detention and in school suspensions. It’s just a room. You go, sit, and have to read or work on homework.
Yes I did
Pretty sure it existed back when I was in school. Not sure about now.
I never did. They did shove the bad and mentally disabled kids into a single school at the edge of town though.
Yeah I got Saturday detention a couple times. Progression goes after school detention to Saturday detention to in school suspension to out of school suspension.
A teacher comes in on Saturday to supervise you. We were allowed to do homework or read. Just the study hall was open. We had to meet at the front entrance and get escorted to the study hall.
They can make you come in on Saturday because of you don’t come in on Saturday you get an interview school suspension during the school week.
My parents would make me walk to and from school on Saturday if I got a Saturday detention.
It was listed as a possibility in our school handbook, but no, I don’t think I ever saw it actually happen. Since it would require the teacher or admin to come in on Saturdays.
Detention for us was usually something informal that you served after school with the teacher that assigned it. If you got into more trouble than that, you got in-school suspension, which was pretty much like the detention in Breakfast Club, just boring busy work and no talking, except it was during the school day.
Only time I had a weekend detention was because I had like 10 truances and and detentions which currencies were done at your own pace but I never did them so they told me I was taking too long and if I did one Saturday School they would all be wiped.
I got detention only a couple times, but it was always midweek
No. Detention for us was always after school. I’ve never heard of real Saturday detention. I probably would’ve just skipped it if I’d gotten it.
My school never had it, but others did.
> Do the teachers have to come in on the weekends?
Some do
> How much of the school has to stay open?
Just enough to keep kids in detention, a couple rooms
> How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?
A teacher takes attendance, if you’re not there, a special police unit is sent to your house, if you don’t listen to them, the national guard is called in.
Yes. I had 2 sessions of Saturday detention 3 days before I graduated. It was a joke. It was in the library and I hung out with my friends and was on MySpace on the computer.
My county doesn’t have it, mainly because that would be overtime for the teachers, and no money for that.
I did once, and it was for being tardy too many times. I was 10. It wasn’t up to me whether I made it to school on time or not.
Saturday morning 8 am til noon. So, yes, it’s legit.
It sucked. We had to get up early, go to school, and sit there either doing homework, doing some special detention assignment, or literally cleaning graffiti off lockers.
We usually had only one teacher to supervise the lot of us in a classroom.
The school was usually open on Saturday for the sports teams and the school marching band to come practice, various clubs and volunteer groups to meet, detentions, play rehearsals, and so on. They usually opened the main doors, kept the side doors locked, and classrooms that weren’t being used that day were also kept locked.
They made sure we came by taking attendance and disciplining those who did not serve their detention.
Saturday detention was a thing at my school. There weren’t usually that many kids, maybe max 20 to 25 kids getting a Saturday detention at one time, so they only needed one teacher to supervise it.
We had two kinds of “Saturdays”: Saturday work and Saturday study. Thankfully I didn’t get either one!
It’s a real thing. I got one once, I forgot what I got to get it. There were two teachers there to take attendance, and they seemed just as pissed as we were that they had to be there on a Saturday.
We sat in the library for a couple hours, then they made us scrape gum off of the cafeteria tables.
I had a couple Saturday detentions. It’s legit. It’s only for very serious incidents. In my case, a friend fainted in my arms at school and it looked bad, even I thought it was my fault. Turns out she had an undiagnosed medical issue, but that wasn’t discovered until many months after my punishment was served.
It’s boring, you just sit in a classroom and read or do schoolwork for 4 hours. You’re supervised the whole time.
> How much of the school has to stay open?
Literally just the teacher assigned to Saturday detention.
> How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?
If you don’t show up you can get suspended or expelled from the school.
LOL yes Saturday School was a real thing and yes I had to go once. (Back in the 80s for me). They take attendance once you’re there. At my school the rule was once you’ve had three after school detentions, you have to go to Saturday School next.
Saturday school is what we called it. You could end up in there for the stupidest reasons.
Yes I did . I the 90’s in high school. We would get Saturday School. It was detention on Saturday for 3 hours of literally just sitting in a huge room with other kids who are in trouble.
It was not cool like inthe movies. It sucked
Not at my high school. Detention was held after school on Fridays.
One of my sons once had Saturday detention. I’ve given Saturday detention for egregious behavior. Let’s just say yelling insults at workers outside the classroom window doesn’t get any slack from me.
My school did not have detention outside of school hours. We had in school suspension and out of school suspension.
My county had “In School Suspension” where you sat in silence doing class work at a desk/cubby for a period of days. Next step up was being sent home for suspension.
I’ve never seen Saturday detention. The few schools I attended all had after-school detention.
Yep. I had Saturday morning detention often because I was often late to school. We sat in silence for 3 hours. Eh.. well I’d get my homework done so it wasn’t a total waste.
My school did. But it was usually an escalation thing. So like if you missed lunch detention or in school suspension, you get slapped with a Saturday detention. If you miss Saturday detention with no excuse then the next step would be out of school suspension, but don’t be fooled you still get sent homework. I think the expectation is that a parent or guardian will begin taking steps themselves. At least that what we thought as high schoolers
Maybe I’m too Aussie for this but why would you even turn up?
I don’t remember detention but we did have Saturday school for kids with too many absences, like myself. We sat in a classroom with some teacher who got the short end of the duty roster stick and so long as we were quiet we could work on whatever.
The is depends on the the local school system. My school had retract (in-school suspension) and campus cleanup. Campus cleanup was held on the weekends, and the students had to pick up the litter and garbage. If you don’t show up, your parent or guardian is usually contacted.
Never. Wasn’t a thing in any school i nor my kids went to.
Yeah but usually for Saturday detention they made us labor, like paint the school or cut the grass. I spent one Saturday scraping gum off the undersides of desks. It wasn’t fun!
I was in school in the late 60s and 70s. We didn’t have detention – ever. We had parents. When we acted up in school our parents were notified. No punishment from the school was even close to the punishment we received at home.
Nope, I never went to a school that would pay anyone OT to come in on weekends (for sports, sure, for delinquents, no). Detention was after school, only.
My schools never had it and I’ve never worked at a school that had it. I’ve heard secondhand from people who have experienced it but I don’t feel it is very common (at least not in my part of the country).
No. Absolutely not. There wasn’t any detention either. No one was staying late for some asshole.
They did in school suspension. You got locked in a room with all the other shit heads and had to sit quietly and do your work
Back in the ’80s our detentions were after school. There was a half hour between dismissal of the final class period and when the buses came. Kids who didn’t ride the buses or have detention or some other extracurricular activity could just leave for the day. Kids who did ride the bus would spend that half hour in a homeroom studying. Kids who had detention would spend that half hour in the detention hall.
No. My school district didn’t do detention at all.
Yes, it did happen. If you skipped regular detention without a valid excuse (doctor’s appointment, sports, etc.), you would be assigned Saturday school. It was from 8-12 on Saturdays, and what you did varied depending on the teacher in charge. Sometimes they just put you in a room to do homework quietly. Other times, you would be given tasks to complete around the school, like shelving library books or cleaning.
Not at my school. You would get detention on school days not weekends. So it could either be a detention where you have to stay in a room during the lunch period or it could be a detention after school. During detention you were supposed to do homework.
Source: me. I got detention in middle school two times and had to eat a crappy bagged lunch provided to me which was a peanut butter jelly sandwich, an apple, and a milk carton.
We did but it wasn’t like full school. Just one classroom / teacher was there. You basically sat in this one classroom for several hours and did homework / catchup work on assignments from your normal classes. If you didn’t show up, consequences would get progressively worse.
My school district did. I never got it, but my brother did a few times, though each time my Dad called and said that weekends are for family time, so they ended up having to do a traditional detention on the weekdays for him.
Yeah we had Saturday school at the first high school I went to
We had after-school detention at the school I graduated from
My high school didn’t do it on the weekends.
We had after school detention though. You helped out the janitors. You wiped down tables, cleaned chalk boards and dry erase boards, vacuumed the hall and classrooms, or mopped the hard surface areas. Sometimes they’d put you on landscaping duty too.
I got to experience all of it. Good student academically but kind of a rule breaker and habitually late to class.
I went to two high schools in two states. At least one had early morning detention before school, but I don’t think either had weekend detention.
I’ve got two experiences here: one as a high school student, again as a former teacher in public schools.
In California, it’s all about money, in this case “Average Daily Attendance”. It’s why schools make a big fuss and will sometimes forbid you from returning to class after being absent, with documenting why you were absent.
To my knowledge, Saturday detention wasn’t done. If you were exceptionally naughty, you got suspended. And in my experience, you had to arrive and leave school at a different time, and you spent the day alone doing your regularly scheduled classwork, with no other people to talk with. Your lunch was delivered from the cafeteria, and you took no breaks outside those four walls of that room in the central office!
And, since you were on campus? The school got to cash that check for your attendance!
We had it. Officially, it was called Saturday School, but we called it Breakfast Club because we thought we were being clever. It was three hours, and you were not allowed to talk, sleep, or have any food or drinks. There was a break halfway through to use the toilet and drink water. You had to read or do homework.
Teachers usually volunteered for it, I assume they got some sort of overtime. My school rarely had it since you had to get several warnings and detentions before it was given out.
They made sure you attended by offering harsher punishment for not coming in. I believe it would’ve been in-school suspension. Meaning you were not allowed to attend class and instead spent the day in a very small room with a built-in desk and no windows.
Yeah it was bullshit. They generally consolidated the kids who got Saturday school into one day a month.
They stuck us in a desk with blinders on all three sides and gave us literally nothing to do, at all, not even textbooks. Couldn’t get up to pee except for lunch, which was 15 minutes. They had to have security there because one kid inevitably lost their shit and got hauled off.
My school had it. I don’t remember how long it was– a few hours, at least. I’d have to sit in the library writing lines over and over again. The teacher had written out this lengthy paragraph that I had to copy down over and over. I was not allowed to work on homework or anything productive because, I was told, that defeated the point of the punishment. The teacher monitoring me and whatever other hapless student was also being punished would sit at her podium and spend the entire time reading, except that she’d get up from time to time to come over and check on us writing that paragraph.
If memory serves, I think we had to write it something like a hundred times, but if we were caught trying to write it down one word at a time (i.e. writing it once to figure out how many lines it took and then just writing down the first word 50 times spaced apart, and then writing down the second word spaced apart, etc. as opposed to writing the entire paragraph in one go and then doing that 99 more times) she would confiscate the pages and make us start all over.
I don’t remember a whole lot from that time other than I was in trouble quite a bit– usually for arguing with the teachers or stuff like that. The worst part was that it was mind-numbingly boring.
>Do the teachers have to come in on the weekends?
It was just one person per room, usually a security guard.
>How much of the school has to stay open?
Depended on how many kids had Saturday detention. If less than twenty-five or so, just one room, otherwise they’d open a second.
>How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?
If you had a two-hour Saturday detention, if you didn’t show you’d have a four-hour one next week. If you didn’t show to a four-hour detention, you were suspended.
My Saturday detentions were all for dress code violations – all outerwear had to have the school logo and be purchased from the approved more-expensive-than-average vendor. Sometimes when I was cold I’d try to sneak through with the wrong jacket. I’d usually be okay but there were a couple staff (none of them teachers) who seemed to relish the opportunity to give detentions.
I had to do four hour Saturday school once in junior high. It was really boring.
It existed. I never had it. Or actually detention ever. I was a goody two shoes.
We had two things but they were essentially the same. Detention was sitting after school for 30 or 60 minutes extra for doing something disobedient.
The other i cant remember what they called it, but it was detention for not doing homework and you had to stay and complete the assignment afterschool.
My first teaching job had Saturday School. Pay was not bad and done at 11am.
Most kids that had it took it in stride.
I did once.
They didn’t open the whole school. Just some of the auxiliary classrooms.
It was called “Saturday School” and it was basically study hall for students who had too many unexcused absences.
Back in the day I think but I got detention a few times and it was always during lunch
It theoretically existed but I don’t know anyone who ever had to do it
We did, but at my school it was rare (small school). The principal would come in and do work with you and talk about life lessons. It would only happen about two times a year. One time, I know the student and principal manually weeded the entire soccer field, sweeped the gym floor, and cleaned the basketball bleachers.
My schools and my kids schools, Massachusetts, never had Saturday detention. Only after school.
Never saw weekend detention. Only thing we had was lunchtime and after school detention.
Nope. I’ve never gone to or worked at (I’m a teacher) a school with Saturday detention.
I would have no idea how detention worked or if it was weekday or weekend, as I wasn’t a bad kid.
In my school, not usually. If you racked up enough after school detention that you couldn’t pay it back by the end of the year, you might get a Saturday detention or two, but it was like, helping the maintenance guys or secretaries, not normal sitting around staring out the window like after school detention.
And if school let out for the year and you still hasn’t paid it back, it was just gone.
That’s my NJ Catholic school experience of the early 00s. And one year I got detention every day for four straight months.
I didn’t have weekend or after school detention in the 90s/early 00s.
There was Saturday school for people who were failing really badly but that was an academic thing not a disciplinary one.
Yes it is a real thing.
No. Never on the weekends. The school was closed unless there was an event of some kind like a game. Our suspensions were out of school anyway. One time I got caught skipping school with some friends, so the next day we were all suspended. At least one of us had a car, so we hung out and did something. This was the 70’s when things were pretty lax. We even had a smoking area for the students, and there was a large student parking lot, with no cops or security guards in a school of 1600 kids, too much for the vice principal to cover. From what I heard, they really tightened up things in the 80’s.
My son has Saturday detention this upcoming Saturday for being late too many times. So yeah, it’s still a thing.
My school had after school detentions.
The school where I teach currently has Saturday detention. It is called Saturday school. There are a list of teachers who have volunteered to work Saturday school. They do get paid but, no one is forced to work on those Saturdays. The student s are given work from each of their teachers to complete. Usually, it’s work that they have missed turning in previously anyway. It goes from 8:00 a.m. to noon.
We didn’t but where I grew up people were poor, there was no city bus, and I loved an hour from the school by car. My mom would have had to drive me and there was absolutely no chance of that happening.
Boy did I
My school never did thank God
I grew up in NYC with a strong teachers’ union. Detention, especially weekends, would have cost too much to a limited budget.
Yep. We had Saturday detention. As long as we were quiet for the first hour, the teacher would take us outside to “pick up garbage in the parking lot” so we could smoke and wander around.
I actually don’t remember, I never went to any detention. If someone caught on you’d just get like a two day suspension or something like that. Half the time they wouldn’t notice.
My first high school had this but I never knew anybody who had to go there.
They called it Saturday School. I never had to do it (nerd) but apparently during football season all you did was clean up the stadium from the game the previous night. Like pick up all the trash. Idk what they did the rest of the time.
I had after school detention a couple times for chewing gum and it was like 45 minutes of copying a paragraph about integrity and writing my teacher an apology letter.
My school never had detention of any kind, but I know people who’s schools did have both after-school and weekend detention.
One time. The only time I ever had detention, actually. I brought a book and read 90% of it during detention, which is probably what I would have been doing that day anyway.
Everyone sat spaced out in the cafeteria, had to stay quiet. Don’t remember how many teachers because it was over twenty years ago.
I cannot for the life of my remember why I was there other than my entire class got detention, it wasn’t an individual infraction. I want to say it was my chorus class, too, so there were all 22 of us plus a double handful of other kids.
Saturday School… womp womp
If you have missed too many classes you have to make them up after school or on Saturday to get credit for taking the class that semester.
Saturday detention was the shit! You show up at 8. Hang out with the knuckleheads for a few hours getting high, fucking around, and finding out what’s up for the weekened. Then you go home. Once you get home your friends are just waking up and ready to get moving. You party your face off, skip Monday because you are spent, get reprimanded for skipping Monday, ignore the reprimand, get Saturday detention, repeat.
It wasn’t a thing when/where I was in school (mid-’80s in south Alabama). There was after-scool detention, regular suspension, in-school suspension, and paddling.
We had Saturday school.
>I’ve seen in a lot of TV shows that characters can get Saturday detention. Is this legit?
Yes
> If so, what’s it like?
When I did this many, many years ago, we sat in a classroom and could not read, study, or work on homework. Just sit silently.
>Do the teachers have to come in on the weekends?
Yes, it’s a rotation.
Other schools and other teachers may do things differently.
>How much of the school has to stay open?
We sat in a single classroom.
> How do they make sure you guys come into school for detention?
They don’t.
We had Saturday school.
I’ve heard of it for extreme situations. Only 3 or 4 kids at my school were dumb enough to get detention and it was served before school in the mornings.
The (college prep) high school I went to had detention and Saturday detention. If you were a repeat offender for some violation (dress code, behavior, cheating on schoolwork, etc.), you’d be given 2 or 3 days of detention, but I only ever got the typical one day. Athletes were not exempt unless they were competing.
Detention meant you went to the assigned room after final class, sat in silence for 5-10 minutes, then went to the cafeteria to put the chairs up. Once that was over, you were dismissed. Not sure what happened during Saturday, but I’d assume it’s pretty similar to the other responses
Went to boarding school and we definitely had Saturday detention. It sucked and involved cleaning in the worse way possible.
Absolutely not. No one wanted to be there on a Saturday, staff included.
My school didn’t have it so your mileage may vary. My school rarely did detention though to begin with, ISS or calls home to parents or taking away of privileges were much more common
It exists. I was a moderate hooligan and had detention a few times.
At my school, this was mostly janitor duty. One time, I had to sit in a class for two hours after school and do non-existent homework.
Yep. Saturday detention was a common thing for me and my classmates all through the 1980s.
The kids had it when I taught middle school 10 years ago. There’s probably no funding for it anymore though.
We had it, but you only got it for cutting class or having a certain number of unexcused tardies. It was always in the cafeteria, and I’m not sure how many students typically had it per week. It was probably supervised by one or two teachers (I never had it.) Our school had security gates (like what you’d find on storefronts in a mall) so that the cafeteria, auditorium, etc. could be used after hours without providing access to the rest of the building. I assume attendance was taken by the teacher(s) on duty.
My school had ISS, which was In School Suspension, they’d make you come to school but you weren’t in the classroom with your fellow students and they’d make you sit in a room off of the office and do your lessons by yourself, seemed completely idiotic to me like if your gonna suspend someone make them stay at home
Never had Saturday school when I was a kid. My kids never had Saturday school at their school and we don’t do it where I am now.
Yes. It’s a thing
This is not a thing at the school I work at, and it wasn’t a thing when I was in school either. I’m guessing it’s regional?
I got “Saturday school” for being a few minutes late a few times (my homeroom teacher was weirdly strict about it).
Honestly, it’s not bad. You sit in a classroom with other students who got Saturday school, and you have to be quiet, but it doesn’t go on your record. It gave me an opportunity to do my homework in a quiet location, so I didn’t have to worry about it the rest of the weekend.
Yea I did not show up for it lmfao
We had “Saturday School” in my high school. I never had to go to it but my brother did.
Yes. My kids are nearly grown and they’ve had a Saturday detention maybe 2-3 times. It’s not something frequent.
There’s usually just 1-2 teachers. It’s held in a big room like the cafeteria. They make you sit really far apart from each other. You can’t color, draw, or read. Sometimes they make you do workbooks, sometimes you just have to sit in silence. If you break the rules or don’t show up, they will escalate it to something like in school suspension.
It’s usually from 10 am to noon.
I went to a private international school, and they had weekend detention. I remember a teacher saying he volunteered to supervise detention when he had a lot of papers to grade, because he’d get more work done that way than he would at home. I I’ve never heard of it in public schools.
I don’t think my high school did that. I was in school from 00-04, tho, so it might’ve been phased out by then.
Once, just did homework and got help from the teacher.
The school was “open” in the sense that you could walk around the halls but the office was closed, food wasn’t made in the cafeteria or anything like that. The janitors were around doing their usual thing.
Pretty similar conditions to if you just stayed late but even more empty.
The teacher gave us cake for some reason
Detention at my school was after school
I had a lot of Saturday detention. Mainly because what detention conflicted with sports practice. Missing was not an option. I think I ever ever missed a practice due to illness. Fall football and spring track.
It was a private school, and we got a detention every other time we were late. My older brothers could never get there on time, and I got driven by them. I was marginally better at being on time, but I also had homeroom teachers who gave me a break because I never caused trouble, and I’m kind of an idiot.
I graduated 10+ years ago, and yes. I did have “Saturday school” as my school called it. It was only a punishment for people who got suspended. It sucked to wake up early on your “day off” but it was only like 5 hours and after the first 30 minutes of the teacher telling you no sleeping, they would leave you alone. I only had it twice.
At my (private) high school we have after school detention with no cost. We also have full and half day Saturday school, both costing $75.
Current public school student, our school doesn’t even give out detention a lot. Kids still misbehave.
Saturday detention used to be a thing but my school did away with it years ago. I don’t think they even do after school detention much anymore, at least in my district. Most kids either get lunch detention (eating quietly alone in a room with a teacher instead of in the cafeteria with their friends), or in-school or out-of-school suspension depending on the severity of the infraction.
Not really. My high school was so underfunded (then new york) that they didn’t even have regular detention.
I got detention once. I went to a school where some of the teachers had housing on the grounds. I spent my detention with another kid splitting logs for a teacher’s wood stove.
How do they know you showed up? They take attendance.
Yep. I worked the system actually.
We had 4 periods per day in school, each 90 minutes long. If you skipped one, you got 2 detentions.
Skip a full day, you got 6 detentions.
Each detention period was 60 minutes long and you had to sign up for which detentions you’d take and when. There were 2 available detention hours after each school day. So if you skipped one school day, and got charged with 6 detentions, it would take you 3 afternoons of 2 hours each from 3-5 pm and you’d be clear.
However. You could do 6 hours on Saturdays. 8-2.
So I’d skip a whole day of school. Schedule myself for all 6 hours the following Saturday. Then? Not show up.
Why, you ask?
Because your punishment for skipping scheduled detention of that quantity was one day of out of school suspension.
So my punishment for skipping a day of school was that the following week I’d get a 3 day weekend. 😎
We had Saturday school when I was in middle school. I don’t remember what I did but I ended up there once. I just spent the time writing a story in my notebook for fun.
my brother had so many detentions they had to make sure he wasnt double booked for detention on saturdays and during the week lmfao
Wasn’t a thing at my school. You actually weren’t even allowed on school property on the weekends unless you were returning from a trip or leaving/returning to an out of state away game. (Our out of state football games were usually Saturday afternoons due to safety concerns at the other schools).
Yeah High School had Saturday detention. Wasn’t a thing in elementary and middle school from what I remember.
We never had any kind of detention. If you did something bad, you got whacked on the ass with a paddle.
I only had detention once and it was just during the week at school.
my middle school (technically a grade k-8 school) had saturday detention but i never had it personally.
“If you get a Saturday detention and you skip it you don’t have to go to school on Monday” was a pretty common saying at my school
The “punishment” for not serving a Saturday detention was a one day suspension…
Yeah, detention for offenses. There was also Saturday class for students that were falling behind and needed help with schoolwork.
I went once for fighting a guy trying to bully me. It’s lame and boring. One teacher in a small room with a group of students. Teacher never leaves. You can’t talk or anything. They give you a stack of random BS school work to do.
I was supposed to have detention once in middle school after school but since I took the bus, they let me serve it during lunch. Actually quite enjoyed being able to get my food without worrying about if there was a seat left with my friends of if I gotta walk around awkwardly until I found a spot lol
Detention was a big deal in middle school, seemed super scary to me. In high school it wasn’t a very big deal. I got Saturday school in senior year, and it was mostly other seniors who wanted to clear up their absence record.
Yeah. We had tiers. I think for unexcused absences you got one free, then an hour detention after school, then a four hour on Saturday, then in-school, then suspension. You’d also get harsher penalties for stuff like fighting. The Saturdays kind of sucked. During the hour ones they’d encourage you to do homework, but on Saturday they’d make you put it away. No talking, no reading, no nothing. Just sit in a desk in a room with a couple dozen other students and stare at nothing for four hours. I think one of the deans was running it the time I went, they might have had teachers come in on rotation or a volunteer basis. It was mostly subs that ran the hourly one, a lot of them would probably be okay with coming in on Saturday if they didn’t have a lot of days during the week.
My high school didn’t have it in the 2010’s, I don’t think they wanted to pay staff to be there. In School Suspension seems to have taken over.
I only did one, I was pretty good at not getting caught. It was a punishment that was available though. One teacher comes in and supervises a classroom full of delinquents for a few hours. The rest of the building is locked up. Maybe there is also a practice going on in the gym or someone doing janitorial stuff unrelated.
My k-8 school had morning detention where you had to show up at 6 and write an essay about a virtue.
My high school, as far as I could tell, had no discipline whatsoever.
I graduated high school in 2010 and I never heard of weekend detention. I’ve been to detention, but never on a weekend. It actually doesn’t make any practical sense. Schools are closed on the weekends, staff aren’t working. So who is supposed to watch you? I highly doubt it’s a thing today.
Wasnt a thing at my school. They did detention after school (Mon-Fri), though
Graduated high school in ’96 and we never had weekend detention.