In-school suspension was so much fun as a kid. They lock you up in an empty classroom with a teacher and your work for the day, you finish everything by noon, you eat in an empty cafeteria, and then read and goof off until time to go home.
I'm sending one tomorrow to ISS. Ours don't like it. We send work they have to complete and the room is full of materials the ISS teacher can pull from (so you always get more back than you send). They have to sit in a desk in a cubicle facing the wall. They can't talk to anyone except the ISS teacher. For lunch you walk to the cafeteria get your lunch and take it back to your cubicle. It's a day of almost total isolation. Not something my inner-city kids are use to. Not being able to get attention and talk does not make them happy.
Indeed. Though I'd bring my lunch. Only school food worth eating was the rectangular school pizza, and if you brought your own food you could eat when ever you wanted. Was nice quit time to write or read a good book. I usually finished all my work by second (if it was light) or fourth period. So I had from around 10 or so till 215 to my self.
My suspension was to sit in a room all by myself during the school day. So I ended up sneaking my DnD and Stephen King books to read.
My son had his share of ISS in the past. If you don't mind being by yourself, it's like VIP treatment. Way back in 6th or 7th grade or so he detention so much he was a regular. He'd walk in the cafeteria for morning before school detention and was like Cheers yelling "Norm!" when he walked into the bar.
I got several OSS (Out of School Suspensions), a number of administrative detentions (detention with a Principal or Vice Principal, after school hours 3pm-5pm), normal detentions. I guess I was kinda a shit head in school, though strangely my teachers liked me. In 11th grade, for the first semester, I only had two classes a day. The first started at 8:00 and ended at 9:30 the second started at 11:00 and ended at 12:30. After that I was free to do as I pleased. I usually meandered around the grounds, hanging out with the skipping kids. They had an early bus at 2:00 and the B&G Club van came by around 2:30ish and I spent a number of evenings there, having fun with other kids in a safe environment. Such a rebel I was.
Saturday D-hall. Mine thought she'd "forget" she was assigned standard issue after school. WRONG! [/McLaughlin]. I like to make her feel like she screwed the day up for everybody, or will miss something we were going to do.
My kids have never been in ISS, I don't know how they'll feel about it. But I guarantee they'll hate the IHS part. (In Home Suspension)
I wouldn't mind weekend detention if I could gaze upon Molly Ringwald's sweet crotch underneath a desk like in Breakfast Club.
I got it once in HS for playing a prank on another student. It wasn't bad. We sat in the cubical and did our work, at lunch the teacher went and picked up the food for us. We got to choose off a menu of cafeteria items and you could buy anything on the list that you had the money for. I was finished with my school work by noon and spent the other 2 hours of the day working on a big project I had coming up for one of my classes(I can't even remember what the project was anymore, but I know it was like getting to knock out 2 hours of homework while at school). So all in all, I'd say it was a far more effective use of my time than a normal school day. I probably learned more too. I didn't feel punished or anything, in fact, if I could go back I think I would get it more often.
