I don't even know how I would get a detention. The teachers are so nice and lenient here that you have to be REALLY bad to get one, I honestly haven't witnessed someone getting a detention since 8th grade. So the answer would be 0/0.
That's interesting. The general trend in schools seems to be more detentions/suspensions, not fewer. The only discipline going on its way out is corporal punishment.
The only thing they're "cracking down" on in my school is being late. And really there's no reason for being late, so that's that. Usually they're extremely nannyist in elementary school, but once you get to high school or even in middle school staff are pretty chill.
I did get one detention in elementary school (6th grade to be exact). And it was for simply having an iPod (my first one). I wasn't even using it, I just had it. That was only five years ago for me... the progress we've had with device technology is amazing . Simply having it was an abomination to school staff just a half decade ago, and now you can use it in class as long as the teacher isn't in a lecture (which would be a small minority of the period in most classes but still)
But yeah, I really feel bad for the schools across the country that are looking more and more like prison cells than educational centers. Zero tolerance BS has to be wiped out.
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