Posted: 4/24/2014 5:22:53 PM EDT
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I had to do that some in middle school (and in high school, in Detention).
In middle school, the teacher had this set of "rules of conduct" that George Washington was supposed to have written for himself. You'd have to write each of them X times for her, with the number increasing according to the severity of your fuckup.
In detention, the teacher who ran it had a set of encyclopedias, and you'd have to spend the full hour copying. If he caught you slipping, or thought you'd been slacking, he'd give you another detention.
In chemistry in high school, I got a lab detention for fucking around during a lab, and I had to wash all the glassware from all the day's classes after school. It wasn't so bad, but I think practical punishments might be counterproductive - if a task is interesting, it's not punishment, and if the task is necessary, you're making a counterproductive association between a necessity and punishment. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quote History Quoted:
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If they are disrespectful they write, I will not disrespect adults 50 times.[...] It is the worse punishment I dealt with growing up.
I had to do that some in middle school (and in high school, in Detention).
In middle school, the teacher had this set of "rules of conduct" that George Washington was supposed to have written for himself. You'd have to write each of them X times for her, with the number increasing according to the severity of your fuckup.
In detention, the teacher who ran it had a set of encyclopedias, and you'd have to spend the full hour copying. If he caught you slipping, or thought you'd been slacking, he'd give you another detention.
In chemistry in high school, I got a lab detention for fucking around during a lab, and I had to wash all the glassware from all the day's classes after school. It wasn't so bad, but I think practical punishments might be counterproductive - if a task is interesting, it's not punishment, and if the task is necessary, you're making a counterproductive association between a necessity and punishment.
Gotta disagree with you a bit. I short fuzed a smoke bomb at school once and got sent to 20 or 30 hours of community service as part of a police diversion program. This was way before the time when such offenders would be waterboarded, expelled from all schools in the state, branded terrorists and no fly listed for life. I worked in a charity food distribution warehouse. I was given responsibilities and expected to work hard at a real and important task.
It helped me get myself sorted out because I blew up the school because I was bored and because fuck you that's why and being trusted with something responsible helped me feel a whole lot less fuck you that's why.
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