School Detains Tardy Pupil's Parents

[Deborah]

Give me an F'in break. :rofl:

NYC School Detains Tardy Pupils' Parents
The Associated Press
October 01, 2006

The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get them to school on time A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.

Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don't drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal's office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.

'The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get them to school on time,' principal Susan Rappaport told the New York Post for Sunday's editions.

Some tardy parents at the school, which has 660 pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade, complained the detention made them late for work. But others approved, saying they felt humiliated and won't show up late again.

[Anonymous]

But others approved, saying they felt humiliated and won't show up late again.

   :roll: Sometimes you really wonder about people...

[Deborah]

Yeh, and what's the consequence if an ODD parent refuses to pick up a late slip and serve detention?

[Anonymous]

Yeh, and what's the consequence if an ODD parent refuses to pick up a late slip and serve detention?

They have to write "I must not be late" 1000 times.  ::bwahaha::

[Anonymous]

Well, this is off target, but I am a teacher at an alterna school. Love kids, love my subject but i'm actually surprised MORE kids don't fail in school.  I've come to see how freaking conformist it is. Everyone doing the same thing at the same time--mandatory.  I don't know how kids sit at a desk all day long churning out minutaie.  Work sheets.  What about the compulsory pledge? They don't even know what it means! My 5 year old got in trouble for not reciting it "seriously" enough.

On one hand, I get what the principal is trying to do; on another hand, its important to work to feed your kids and we're not robots.  Not everyone is "together" early in the morning.