Lunch Detention.....

[DizBelle]

Does a lunchtime detention (resulting in the child not eating lunch) seem like an appropriate punishment?

 

[TheIncredibles!]

Absolutely not! I would be furious. Appropriate would be a recess detention or after school detention.

 

[ICF]

I've never heard of a "lunch" detention involve the kid not being able to eat.

I thought they just had to eat in a special location apart from the other kids.

 

[FireDancer]

We had lunch detention in high school but it didn't keep the student from eating lunch. They just had their lunch in a study hall type atmosphere in a different room where they were not allowed to socialize for the period instead of eating in the cafeteria that day. Even if you wanted to buy lunch you were escorted to the cafeteria to buy the lunch and then escorted back to the detention room.

My high school used the same room for lunch detention as in-school suspensions.

 

[Erin1700]

Does a lunchtime detention (resulting in the child not eating lunch) seem like an appropriate punishment?

At my DD's school they get lunch detention but it means you eat in the room in silence and then do work when you are done. Never heard of a school not allowing a kid to eat. What grade is it? Are you sure you have all the facts?

 

[pyrxtc]

inappropriate and also illegal I think. They must be offered a lunch period.

 

[Acklander]

Food should never be involved with rewards or punishment.

 

[DizBelle]

At my DD's school they get lunch detention but it means you eat in the room in silence and then do work when you are done. Never heard of a school not allowing a kid to eat. What grade is it? Are you sure you have all the facts?

This is a co-workers child. She is 15 (9th or 10th grade) and this is a private school. If you get 3 "violations" (late, incorrect uniform, etc) then you get a lunch detention. My co-worker said that she goes to a room where they just sit and do nothing. They may get 5 minutes or so after the detention to eat something before they have to run to their next class. With only 5 minutes, you don't have time to chew.

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

That doesn't sound right. Are you sure that's how it works?

My son's new school has detention, when my son got very worried about the possibility of detention I realized he'd only ever heard the word in the context of Harry Potter or Guantanomo Bay. He seemed to know that he wouldn't be carving "I must not tell lies" into his hand with an enchanted quill, or looking for unicorn killers, or being shipped off to Cuba, but beyond that he didn't have a clue. I can easily imagine that he'd think that lunch detention didn't involve lunch, and would come home and report it as fact.

At his school lunch detention means you eat at a desk in the cafeteria instead of a table, so you have no one to talk to.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I would say that the reasoning of the school is inappropriate.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Does a lunchtime detention (resulting in the child not eating lunch) seem like an appropriate punishment?

Not enough information. How did it "result in a child not eating lunch"?

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

This is a co-workers child. She is 15 (9th or 10th grade) and this is a private school. If you get 3 "violations" (late, incorrect uniform, etc) then you get a lunch detention. My co-worker said that she goes to a room where they just sit and do nothing. They may get 5 minutes or so after the detention to eat something before they have to run to their next class. With only 5minutes, you don't have time to chew.

Hmmmm, I don't think I'd choose that as a consequence, but I've eaten 5 minute lunches plenty of times. It doesn't take that long to eat a sandwich and an apple for example.

 

[Pixiedust34]

Lunch detention is common at the school where my dh teaches. Kids do eat lunch, but they do so in isolation and not in the cafeteria with friends.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

This is a co-workers child. She is 15 (9th or 10th grade) and this is a private school. If you get 3 "violations" (late, incorrect uniform, etc) then you get a lunch detention. My co-worker said that she goes to a room where they just sit and do nothing. They may get 5 minutes or so after the detention to eat something before they have to run to their next class. With only 5minutes, you don't have time to chew.

This wouldn't bother me. At 15, my boys would be able to eat in 5 minutes.

 

[castleview]

I can't think of one administrator who would sign off on that.

 

[DizBelle]

Not enough information. How did it "result in a child not eating lunch"?

They are put in a room and not allowed food while in there.

This is what my co-worker says that her daugher says. So, take that for what it's worth. I did ask if she was sure that they weren't allowed to eat and she said yes. I asked how they are supposed to be able to focus on lessons in the afternoon when they are hungy but she didn't seem too concerned.

 

[indimom]

does a lunchtime detention (resulting in the child not eating lunch) seem like an appropriate punishment?

no

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I work at a school. There are two things a child absolutely cannot be denied for punishment - food during specified meal periods and access to a toilet. You can eliminate a misbehaving child from a party or deny a special snack (like cupcakes at a party), but you cannot deny them a meal if it's during the school day.

 

[FireDancer]

This is a co-workers child. She is 15 (9th or 10th grade) and this is a private school. If you get 3 "violations" (late, incorrect uniform, etc) then you get a lunch detention. My co-worker said that she goes to a room where they just sit and do nothing. They may get 5 minutes or so after the detention to eat something before they have to run to their next class. With only 5 minutes, you don't have time to chew.

I suspect your co-worker doesn't have all the details correct because it doesn't sound right or like anything I've encountered and I had plenty of detentions in my day.

 

[DizBelle]

I suspect your co-worker doesn't have all the details correct because it doesn't sound right or like anything I've encountered.

That is certainly possible. I thought it sounded weird so I though I'd throw it out to the DIS community.