My son is in detention... NOW WHAT?

My son got DETENTION at his school. How should I punish him? #crazyrussiandad

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[fariddarkazanli]

As a Syrian, I can totally relate to the Eastern Europe school method 😂😂😂

[NIGHTGUYRYAN]

omg! that photo of lil crazy russian dad 🤣

[nataliebrooks]

In my H.S. (in California), they were very strict about being late. Overly strict, BUT of course the teachers would come late to class while we were standing outside in line waiting to go in (double standards much?). My Spanish 4 teacher (senior year Spanish) would mark us as late even if we were in the classroom prior to the bell ringing, we HAD to be seated. We also had to turn in the homework before the bell rang as well, or it would be not accepted. But, as I said, there were many times she would be arriving late, leaving laughing from the office, clearly enjoying her conversation over holding herself to the same standard that she held her students to. I am all for teaching people responsibility and to arrive on time (or early, even better), but to then not hold yourself to the same standard, meanwhile you punish your students for not being right in their seat at the bell? What is the point then.

[catboy]

Alas, public humiliation doesn't work these days... they get THAT on Social Media!! Means nothing!

[APlusRussian]

"Job of parents is to make children miserable" - yes!! But... You say that and you're not wearing the corresponding T-Shirt?? 😉 P.S. Home-detentioned = brilliant 😄

[TinLeadHammer]

"Somewhere from... Eastern Europe" - I see you feel that the word "Russian" has become toxic. I suggest switching to "Soviet", it has become more palatable and playful recently. "Crazy Soviet Dad" makes more sense anyway. Re: detentions, in a Soviet school they would force you to wash the classroom or sweep the schoolyard. Spending half a day doing nothing is stupid, I never understood the point of American detentions. But "The Breakfast Club" is a cool movie.

[Whammytap]

I often got detention in high school for being a бездельница, but some of the other students were more...scary. The detention supervisor was a kind, frail old lady, and the students often tried to intimidate her. After sticking up for her several times, eventually she just let me sit on her desk in the little supervisor's room, and we talked for hours. She even let me go get snacks for us from the vending machines.

[joshuagenes]

As an adult I try not to take my work home with me and as a student I did not like to take work home with me. But unfortunately teachers give homework during the last 5 minute of class and much of it was time consuming busy work for which I did not learn much. For me education should happen during school hours for the most part(little to no homework) and detention should happen after or on saturday and should involve labor to some degree. If child labor laws were applied to students in school....The system is set up wrong. It should be a mastery/portfolio system where students are paid for their material mastery and must demotrate real world use of that knowledge in portfolio projects.