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HuntingVet, I love that third paragraph.

There used to be a day when a child got punished at school and a parent told the child "You must have done something to deserve it" and left it at that.

Now, parents ask the child, "Did you do anything wrong?" Obviously, the child isn't going to fess up to the parent and admit that he/she did do something wrong. For instance, when my brother got detention for making a flame thrower out of a aeresol (sp.) deodarant can, for crazy gluing the teacher's grade book to the desk, for throwing another student's bookbag out the second story window, or the other myriad of things he got detention for, do you think he would admit what he did to my parents? Heck no.

Now Andy, I'm not saying that your son did anything wrong, I'm just agreeing with HuntingVet that schools and teachers have one heck of a time nowadays.

My idea of detention is hard labor. Why spend money on independant contractors to paint and clean schools. Save the money to give it to teachers and have the delinquent kids paint, clean, take out the garbage, etc. after school. Maybe that will get them to pay attention in class a little better and make them study a little harder.