Classic fifteen to forty five minute lessons in procrastination such as writing endless lines, only to have them torn up in front of you and (my personal favourite) the practice of putting up chairs and stools on tables quietly, have been replaced by isolation rooms. An isolation room is where said disruptive or unruly child is sent to a room to sit in a booth on their own and have work set to do.
To reach isolation room status you must have had the fifteen minutes with teacher, that by law they can keep you behind without notifying the parents, and not shown up. The child must then have not turned up for a forty-five to one hour detention with written permission either and so on strike three they end up in an isolation booth, which is similar to the booth you probably sit in at work...
Having stacked up the courage to not turn up to two or three requests for detention you would expect an isolation room to be like some kind of torture chamber where children would watch endless repeats of the periodic table song, alas no. It is not. The chastised students attend from 0900 until 1400 and then get to go home. The time in-between can be spent on a laptop catching up on the homework they would have been doing if they weren't getting themselves taught a lesson on Pro Evolution on line at home. Is this really the best we can do?
Where is the deterrent or life lesson in time wasting? It is almost an advert for unruly behaviour. "Act bad for three days, get Friday afternoon off free." The advert could read. It is almost kind of like "I can't believe it's not detention." Either way it almost makes me wistful to have my school days all over again because if I had known then that that was all the punishment I would get for not showing up to detention, there are a few teachers I would have perhaps been more honest about what I really thought about them and their teachings.
To reach isolation room status you must have had the fifteen minutes with teacher, that by law they can keep you behind without notifying the parents, and not shown up. The child must then have not turned up for a forty-five to one hour detention with written permission either and so on strike three they end up in an isolation booth, which is similar to the booth you probably sit in at work...
Having stacked up the courage to not turn up to two or three requests for detention you would expect an isolation room to be like some kind of torture chamber where children would watch endless repeats of the periodic table song, alas no. It is not. The chastised students attend from 0900 until 1400 and then get to go home. The time in-between can be spent on a laptop catching up on the homework they would have been doing if they weren't getting themselves taught a lesson on Pro Evolution on line at home. Is this really the best we can do?
Where is the deterrent or life lesson in time wasting? It is almost an advert for unruly behaviour. "Act bad for three days, get Friday afternoon off free." The advert could read. It is almost kind of like "I can't believe it's not detention." Either way it almost makes me wistful to have my school days all over again because if I had known then that that was all the punishment I would get for not showing up to detention, there are a few teachers I would have perhaps been more honest about what I really thought about them and their teachings.
