Students in Detention made to do janitorial work: Yea or Nay?

Some teachers in the Bronx are taking heat because they assigned custodial work to a group of kids in detention. The kids didnt' like having to clean up the place and raised a fuss about it.

The local news asked a student what he thought about it...and the little scholar responded with:
"Like that's not cool, like making kids clean toilets like that's not how that should go."

Well, kid, judging by your horrible grammar, you're not exactly going to be a rocket scientist or anything, so my advice for you is to get used to taking out trash and scrubbing porcelain.

 

are they getting paid?

 

Why would they? It's detention, also known as punishment.

 

then no, because that's involuntary work in hazardous conditions.

 

My only concern would be if this was putting adult janitors out of work. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with a little menial labor to punish misbehavior.

 

If this were standard practice, The Breakfast Club would have been a lot shorter. Therefore I support it.


And in my experience, teachers give detention for a wide variety of offenses. Once I received after-school detention in junior high for not having completed a homework assignment. Most states (except crazies like Arizona) don't even compel prisoners to do labor for no pay.

 

no.

 

As a general rule, no. In some limited instances, I think it can be thoughtful, appropriate. For instance, if a student is being punished for some offense that directly and more or less solely tied to the cleanliness/appearance of the facilities (eg dumping a 2 liter beverage out onto the floor) then it may be a thoughtful and appropriate punishment. By no means, though, should it be either regular, or used repeatedly.

 

I mean, making it so that detention = latrine duty is taking it too far, but having gone to high school where detention meant menial assignments such as stacking chairs, polishing water fountains, and mopping hallways, I don't really see what the problem is.

Granted, I never got detention, but I did the same work as work-study. And I think it's good to make detention more of a deterrent than a lightly enforced study hall can be.

 

Nay. Detention is at its most horrifyingly effective when you have to sit around doing nothing. Not even sleeping.

 

Exactly - though we did make a game of seeing how high we could stack 'em!

 

I'd say no unless the person is cleaning graffiti or something they did.

 

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO HELL

 

I just lol at the though that in today's science classes, children can't roll liquid mercury around in their bare hands as it seeps through their skin and poisons them.

Because everything in the past is automatically better, and any attempt to change makes everyone into effeminate something somethings that will end up DESTROYING AMERICA.

 

If we can't force teenagers to do physical labor, they'll turn into emos and homosexuals.



Back in my day, our recollections weren't clouded by unwarranted nostalgia!

 

How old are these kids?

I could see objections to elementary students cleaning toilets, but middle school and up should be fair game.

 

And that's just the beginning. Since everyone knows that a trend, once it starts, will always continue, usually in the most absurd and disjointed fashion possible, pretty soon they'll end up having sex with animals!

 

A-->B-->C

MAKES PERFECT SENSE

 

Whatever happened to soldiers wearing bright colors into combat? Camouflage is for pansies. We're coddling fighting men too much today.

 

Whatever happened to make employees live in company owned towns where there employers can control both the wages and the cost of all basic necessities? We are coddling American workers too much these days.