Why We Should After School Detention Be Stopped

Good Morning ladies and gentlemen, I disagree with the motion detention, which says after-school detention is effective. My arguments are, after-school detention should be stopped because it is not effective, after school detention should be stopped because it has a bad effect on students, parents and teachers, and detention should be stopped because students should a different punishment besides detention. The last two arguments are detention should be stopped because it teachers doesn’t send letters home and lastly there should be a better way.

Moving on to my first argument after school detention is not effective. A survey was made and 75% of people said detention is not effective. Many people might detention is a great coincidence. According to one student “The detention at my school are just sitting there doing nothing, which isn't really much.” The main point for detention is to serve as a consequence, but that seems like the job is not getting done. Students everywhere are getting detention because teachers think students are learning from their mistakes. According to a HS teacher “They will just keep on Students these days don't care if they get put in detention.”

Let's start with parents. Most schools don’t provide transportation for detention. Image yourself as a single parent of four, and your child gets after detention, it makes it hard on parents because they have to take time out of their busy schedule, to get their child. Detention affect teachers because, school detention does not pay, extra. That means teachers have to “teach” a detention class with no pay. Lastly, students have many chores and students are expected to do all their chores, homework, take a bath, and go to sleep on time. With detention in the picture students may be way up over their