Claim: Bronx Students Forced To Clean School Toilets

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

lol
Hilarious! No one did. We all hated it. It happened to me once. Although, I got a lot of studying done that morning, I still hated it. But see how effective it is at keeping kids out of trouble? Plus, I don't think parents would have anywhere near as many objections to a 4 hour Saturday morning detention, like they would having their child forced to clean up feces and urine. That's just disgusting.

I'm pro-Saturday detentions, parents don't like having to drive the kids there, kids don't like being there, all sorts of motivation not to screw up.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I'm pro-Saturday detentions, parents don't like having to drive the kids there, kids don't like being there, all sorts of motivation not to screw up.

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

[Drolefille]

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.

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."

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

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.

[DrPhil]

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

You ain't lyin.