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It gets the parents attention if they suddenly have to take a day off of work or deal with a kid in trouble that has to stay home with them.
Also, the kids that get suspended are generally a problem in the schools and it allows the kid's teachers to focus more on teaching and less on classroom management during the suspension days if a behavior problem is gone.
I didn't get suspended. This kid did and now he's home playing Fallout 4. What a punishment.
He's preparing for the next 15 years of playing video games in his parents basement and not having any other obligations in life to do.
Sounds like his parents aren't the best as well. This kid will probably end up being 35 years old, working the counter at McDonalds for 7.75 an hour and getting **** on by ******* teenagers that think it's funny to squirt ketchup all over the place.
At my high school, the level of punishment went from:
1) detention
2) in-school suspension
3) out-of-school suspension
4) expulsion.
It was an unspoken rule that an out-of-school suspension was considered a more serious punishment and was sorta like a last-chance before getting kicked out.
I received a one week in-school suspension (much deserved) my junior year for my drunk prom incident. I had to sit at a desk in the lobby of the principal's office as every teacher, visitor and student walked by. It was pretty humiliating and very effective on 16-year-old me.
But jcyclonee gave the main argument of an out-of-school versus an in-school suspension, but if a parent allows the student to **** around all day, zero lessons are being learned.
1) detention
2) in-school suspension
3) out-of-school suspension
4) expulsion.
It was an unspoken rule that an out-of-school suspension was considered a more serious punishment and was sorta like a last-chance before getting kicked out.
I received a one week in-school suspension (much deserved) my junior year for my drunk prom incident. I had to sit at a desk in the lobby of the principal's office as every teacher, visitor and student walked by. It was pretty humiliating and very effective on 16-year-old me.
But jcyclonee gave the main argument of an out-of-school versus an in-school suspension, but if a parent allows the student to **** around all day, zero lessons are being learned.
So, after three days of being mostly ****** at the world in general & PapaLew's employers in specific, I can finally relax again.
Didn't seem to be any problem with him taking Friday off, so we went ahead and arranged for the tickets for ISU/CU (OVER TWO WEEKS AGO, mind you). Monday around 7.45a PapaLew calls me & says "you're not going to be happy". Seems one guy's MIL died, so they gave him the week off. Okay. Then two guys decide to get pushy-shovy (they were problem employees anyway) and they fire them both. NOW??? So then they turn to PapaLew & say that the shop is too busy for him to be gone on Friday (after he had just agreed to work a double on Monday)...oh, and they might need him to work a double on Friday...and they'll probably need him to work the weekend as well (all OT). **** THAT ****!!!
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He guilted them for the next couple of days, and about an hour ago he emailed to tell me that he was going to go in to work early tomorrow (which means around 3.30a or so) but that they were going to let him leave "around 11a"...so he gets to go after all!!! We'll miss the pre-game meet-up, and it will be cutting it close to make it in time for tip-off, but we'll BE THERE!!!
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Didn't seem to be any problem with him taking Friday off, so we went ahead and arranged for the tickets for ISU/CU (OVER TWO WEEKS AGO, mind you). Monday around 7.45a PapaLew calls me & says "you're not going to be happy". Seems one guy's MIL died, so they gave him the week off. Okay. Then two guys decide to get pushy-shovy (they were problem employees anyway) and they fire them both. NOW??? So then they turn to PapaLew & say that the shop is too busy for him to be gone on Friday (after he had just agreed to work a double on Monday)...oh, and they might need him to work a double on Friday...and they'll probably need him to work the weekend as well (all OT). **** THAT ****!!!
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He guilted them for the next couple of days, and about an hour ago he emailed to tell me that he was going to go in to work early tomorrow (which means around 3.30a or so) but that they were going to let him leave "around 11a"...so he gets to go after all!!! We'll miss the pre-game meet-up, and it will be cutting it close to make it in time for tip-off, but we'll BE THERE!!!
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That's too bad. You won't learn anything. It's fairly apparent you haven't up to this point.
I got detention once. It was in high school senior year. It was a entire class punishment type deal, we we're talking during work time in class. We had to show up after school to that teacher's classroom and stay for 15 minutes. Anyone who showed up, was allowed to leave right away. Anyone who didn't, got actual detention. Only punishment I ever received preschool through 12th grade.
There was a time I was falsely accused of talking in the hallway in 4th grade and had to sign the "Warning Book". 3 warnings = detention. I don't count this because I didn't do what the teacher said I did.
There was a time I was falsely accused of talking in the hallway in 4th grade and had to sign the "Warning Book". 3 warnings = detention. I don't count this because I didn't do what the teacher said I did.
Unless an OSS is deemed more serious, I agree with you to some extent. If the parent and student aren't going to take an OSS seriously, it's not a huge punishment.
UNLESS....one thing I just remembered. When someone had an OSS, any assignments and tests were counted as zeros. For an ISS, all schoolwork received normal grades. Not sure what the policies are for you though.
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