Originally posted by Hydrogen
In my honest opinion, punishing a kid with detention won't do anything besides him increasing his anger or having that thought to befriend the teacher which will most likely result in more bad behavior. How about you guys?
I was a reasonably good kid in high school...Though I was the first the kid to get detention (3 days in) because I got lost finding my way to class so I was late, and I got detention. Only other times I got detention was for being late with few assignments. I thought it was fucking ridiculous because it wasn't to finish the assignment or anything, it was to spend the entire lunch break writing out the rules and conduct sheet.