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Punishments for parental guardians include legal prosecution with a maximum penalty of a fine up to $2,500 per child and up to a year sentencing. [28] For students, punishments may be prosecution in juvenile court with potential penalties including fines, probation, community service, and mandated attendance of a truancy education program. [28]
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.
Writing lines is a long-standing form of school discipline, having survived even as other old punishments such as school corporal punishment and dunce hats fell out of favour in the 20th century. [2] In a 1985 study, over half of respondent teachers in an English-speaking country indicated awareness of the use of writing to discipline students. [5]
Under the updated handbook, punishment for the use of a racial slur ranges from an office referral, detention or apology for first-time offenses, up to a short-term, out-of-school suspension or ...
As punishment, the student had to attend a Saturday detention and was rejected from the school's National Honor Society, though he was later allowed to reapply and gained admission.
A group of students who were punished for partaking in last week's National School Walkout turned their punishment into another gun violence protest. A group of students who were punished for ...
Juveniles in youth detention centers are sometimes subject to many of the same punishments as adults, such as solitary confinement, despite a younger age or the presence of disabilities. [72] Due to the influx of minors in detention facilities due to the school to prison pipeline, education is increasingly becoming a concern.
In 2014, a student was struck in a U.S. public school an average of once every 30 seconds. [6] As of 2024, corporal punishment is still legal in private schools in every U.S. state except Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, legal in public schools in 17 states, and practiced in 12 of the states. [citation needed].