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Originally Posted by Kevin
At the Catholic school I attended, students had to do this and worse as punishment. There were also work-study students who received full and partial tuition waivers for performing janitorial duties after school.
The danger aspect of this is rather trumped up. It's unpleasant, but detention should suck.
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It's still wrong to compare any job (work study or not) to using it as a punishment. Along with a dose of "just because it's been done doesn't mean it's ok."
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Saturday detentions cost money that a lot of schools don't have in their budgets though. You have to pay someone to monitor, as well as the added utilities plus think of all the breakfast club shenanigans that will ensue
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No matter what you do for detention you have to supervise it, yet somehow I think you can manage to save money and not have kids forced to clean bathrooms, probably poorly.