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A demerit is a point given to a student as a penalty for bad behavior. [1] Under this once common practice, a student is given a number of merits during the beginning of the school term and a certain number of merits are deducted for every infraction committed. [2] Schools use the demerit record within a point-based system to punish misbehavior.
It requires the student to report to a designated room (typically after the end of the school day, or during lunch or recess period) to complete extra work (such as writing lines or an essay, or the completion of chores). Detention can be supervised by the teacher setting the detention or through a centralised detention system. [53]
Students, and sometimes staff, parents, and other visitors, who possess a banned item for any reason are always (if the policy is followed) punished. Public criticism against such policies has arisen because of the punishments the schools mete out when students break the rules in ignorance, by accident, or under extenuating circumstances.
In the United States, the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP), also known as the school-to-prison link, school–prison nexus, or schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track, is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to become incarcerated because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies.
Instead, the Bridgeport Police Department sent all four students to a local probation supervisor, who in turn sent them to a local youth support agency. “My mom thought I was going to the detention center,” Kiara said, referring to one of the juvenile jails in the state where kids can still be sent for certain crimes. “She was scared.”
A 13-year-old California boy was given detention for sharing his lunch with a fellow student who wasn't too thrilled with his school-provided lunch on Sept. 16. The boy told KRCR, "I just wanted ...
Students were only arrested in 0.7% of the cases and were incarcerated in even fewer. But adopting formal threat assessment policies or protocols is required by law in only 18 states, required by ...
Studies dating back to the 1980s have shown that students of color and those with learning disabilities are disproportionately affected by school policing policies and practices than are Caucasian or fully able-bodied students, even after accounting for socioeconomic conditions that may affect behavior; they are more frequently disciplined for ...