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Forums - Politics - American Six year old sent to detention for parents tardiness- Schools and American Government officially on Crack!

Zkuq on 23 April 2013
Areym said:
Zkuq said:
Areym said:
What is the problem? A kid has to stay in detention for being tardy, granted, it's the parent's fault.

Where is the child suffering here? Ooooh how painful it must be for her to sit down and do nothing for a while. Truly, this is injustice and muh rights. In all honesty, they're overreacting. I read the entire article and I don't see any injustice or abuse of power or whatever. Other than the parents missing some work hours or schedule conflicts, it is really nothing to get our panties in a bunch. The school is being strict, as schools should be. Plus, the parents were required to sign off on the policy, right? Yes, we all make mistakes and we are human beings but life is fully of consequences, even for the smallest of things.

Getting punished for not doing anything wrong is what's wrong here.

Oh boo hoo. It's detention, it's really no big deal, the little girl probably doesn't give a damn about it. American families are far too sensitive, in my honest opinion. How about we let the school do their job, since you won't allow kids/teens to be educated on safe sex, etc. cause it might scar them or some bullshit. It is common sense that it wasn't the kid's fault but nevertheless, somebody had to get scolded.

On a side note, it must be a slow news day if this has people talking. It's detention, DETENTION. It is literally just sitting there doing nothing or doing some repetitive mundane task. That doesn't even classify as punishment, no matter how crazy the policy is.

On another, @sethnintendo, calm you tits bro. From most of your posts today, you seem to be having a serious case of the rustled jimmies.

Kids' punishments aren't exactly harsh compared to adults' so something as trivial as detention WILL feel like a punishment to the kid. If it doesn't, why not remove detention altogether? Anyway, the kid is going to wonder what she got punished for, what she did wrong. There's no way she'll understand it was the school's stupid practice instead of her doing something wrong, she's only six. Kids that age don't understand things as clearly as you do.



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blkfish92 on 23 April 2013

The tables in her classroom would stand no chance.



           

dahuman on 24 April 2013

You know, I actually kind of enjoyed detention when I would get one back in high school, it gave me time to do homework instead of having to practice sports on those rare days(I was actually able to sleep more! Alright!) Sure, the coaches would get pissed off at me, but at least I never missed a game or a meet in those years lol.....

Oh and they signed it, so the school had to enforce the rules themselves, they are really just doing their jobs, it's not like the 6 year old was on a death sentence, really not a big fucking deal.



dahuman on 24 April 2013
spurgeonryan said:
dsgrue3 said:
Areym said:

Oh boo hoo. It's detention, it's really no big deal, the little girl probably doesn't give a damn about it. American families are far too sensitive, in my honest opinion. How about we let the school do their job, since you won't allow kids/teens to be educated on safe sex, etc. cause it might scar them or some bullshit. It is common sense that it wasn't the kid's fault but nevertheless, somebody had to get scolded.

On a side note, it must be a slow news day if this has people talking. It's detention, DETENTION. It is literally just sitting there doing nothing or doing some repetitive mundane task. That doesn't even classify as punishment, no matter how crazy the policy is.

On another, @sethnintendo, calm you tits bro. From most of your posts today, you seem to be having a serious case of the rustled jimmies.

Not sure if serious or just completely clueless to the complaint.

I don't think anyone thinks the punishment is egregious here, it's the fact that they punished the wrong individual...which you seem to acknowledge yet miss the point. Huh...curious.

I can only guess you're trolling. Carry on.

No I agree, Us Americans are way to poitically correct and sensitive these days. Can't give kids "F' grades, parents can barely punish children, Government wants control of everything, and now this. Sure, I do not care that there is a detention, but for a 5 year old? Whether she does not care or not is not the point. Kids are pretty resilient and do not care about much and have no say in much, but does that mean we should make them sit in detention just because they do not care? She could be playing or doing whatever else a 5 year old should be doing.

Hah, I used to get my ass beat by wooden chair planks or whipped on my legs by long whip sticks, in school or cram school, when I did poorly in grades where I came from(parents also apologized like hell when they shipped me in late). They don't really do it much anymore where I came from but it's not like I was traumatized by it so it's like boo fucking hoo. I also got my ass kicked a lot of the times even at like 7 years old, but I always knew I fucked up and that I wasn't being abused, and I was fucking 7!

Oh and it worked, because when I came to the United States, I realized how dumb the general population is in general without a calculator near by at times. I've also met some pretty smart European kids who shared the same sentiment. Even to this day, I can't believe the idiocy happening in this country or around me at times and it's been 20 years since I immigrated over!

I'm telling you guys, most parents in this country have not a fucking idea of what they are doing and they are just bad at raising kids! I'm not saying all of them, just a vast majority, we are literally a country filled with retarded parents raising kids to be just as retarded or worse, and people are focusing on the wrong things to try to resolve the problems.