Alternative school detentions

School detentions can be long punishments which requires teachers to oversee the pupils under detention. We thus pay extra-hours for the teacher that mon-fri have to stay longer that needed, and we pay even more for Saturday in which they have to come on purpose. Also the students don't like long detentions, but won't like it either if they are made more harsh Are you in favor to incentivize students to pick up shorter but harsher punishments, so they can pay more or less the same price without keeping their teachers around for too long? Here we propose a system made by 5 levels of detention. For a given offense the student would be assigned a level, and has to choose one of the options in that level. More serious or repeated offense would correspond to a higher level of detention being imposed upon the student. After an infraction has been committed, the teacher will check the rules and apply the regulated level, and hand over the student a piece of paper with the choices for that level. The student will have to check an option when in turns in for after-school suspension, thus he/she has time to think about it from when he breaks the rule until school finishes. What that options would be written in each slipper, and to what offense each level corresponds?

Do you agree with this system of punishments?

Yes, I think it's a good idea

Yes, but let's see how it turns out

No, current detention is OK (stop the poll here)

In which grades would you impose such a system?

7th grade (12-13 years old)

8th grade (13-14 years old)

9th grade (14-15 years old)

10th grade (15-16 years old)

11th grade (16-17 years old)

12th grade (17-18 years old)

Which gender should be subject to the system?

Only girls

Only boys

Both boys and girls: we have equal protection

What would be the student choices for a "Level 1 detention"?

1 hour detention. You will sit down and do extra-work the teacher assigns you (no regular home-works).

1/2 hour detention. You will sit still without possibility to move.

What would be the student choices for a "Level 2 detention"?

2 hours detention. You will sit and do extra-work (no regular home-works).

1 hour detention. You will sit still without possibility to move.

1/2 hour detention. You will stand in the corner, legs straight and hands on side.

What would be the student choices for a "Level 3 detention"?

3 hours detention. You will sit down and do extra-work (not regular home-works).

2 hours detention. You will sit down still without possibility to move

1 hour detention. For the first 1/2 hour, you will face the corner, hands on your side For the second 1/2 hour, the teacher will give you a line and you will write it over and over on the blackboard

What would be the student choices for a "Level 4 detention"?

3 hours after-school detention + 2 hours Saturday detention. During the 3 hours you will sit down and do extra-work (not regular homework). Saturday you will clean up the school

3 hours after-school detention. You will sit down still without possibility to move

2 hours after-school detention. First 1/2 hour you will face the wall, your hands on your head. Second 1/2 hour you will kneel, face against the same wall, hands on your head. Third 1/2 you will write a phrase the teacher gives you over and over on the blackboard. Fourth 1/2 hour you will stand, face to wall, on tip-toes. The attending teacher can impose a minimum distance of his/her discretion between your heels and the floor, and have you stay in socks for the punishment to measure this distance with a ruler

1 hour after school detention. First 1/2 you will kneel bare knees on dried peas, face to wall, hands on head. Second 1/2 you will stand face to wall, hands on head, on tip-toes. The attending teacher can impose a minimum distance of his/her discretion between your heels and the floor, and have you stay in socks for the punishment to measure this distance with a ruler

What would be the student choices for a "Level 5 detention"?

3 hours after-school detention + 4 hours Saturday detention. After school you will sit down and do extra academic work (not homework). On Saturday, first 2 hours you will clean the school, second 2 hours you will sit still without possibility to move

3 hours after-school detention + 2 hours Saturday detention. On after school you will sit still without possibility to move. On Saturday, you will clean the school

3 hours after-school detention. First hour you will write lines on the blackboard all over. Second hour you will stand face to wall and hands on your head. You will alternate 15 minutes of tip-toes with 5 minutes of regular standing. In the third hour, in the first 1/2 hour you will kneel against the wall hands on your head, in the second 1/2 hour peas will be added under your knees

2 hours after school detention. First hour, you will face the wall, hands outstretched with 1 book on each of them, alternating tip-toes with rest as the teacher demand. In the second hour you will kneel bare knee on dried peas, face to wall, hands on your head

1 hour after school detention. You will kneel bare knees, face to wall, arms outstretched horizontally with 1 book on each of them, dried peas under your knees, and, at teacher choice, either a bar of soap in your mouth or your shoe on your head

What level would correspond to a 5 minute late to class?

What level would correspond to a 1 minute late to class?

Which level correspond to disobey the teacher?

Which level should be imposed for not doing the homework?

Would you add some other punishment choices to some level? If so, which one to which level?

This poll was created on 2017-06-04 18:11:02 by jackok