In middle school for detentions we had to fill in some "restorative justice" themed sheet with questions like, how will you prevent this in the future and what was wrong with what you did. Now, I'm not normally put in detentions because I try to get something out of the public education system (like trying to extract blood from a rock sometimes, but occasionally my hands have been bloodied by a stone) and don't go around stirring up shit like a generic douchebag. However, my middle school art teacher was a total bitch. Need something from your locker? Detention. For another class? Detention. Have permission from that Teacher, and it's during that class you have with them? Detention. Because you don't have HER permission. Forget a pencil, using pen for some absolutely irrelevant thing that no one will care about in 5 minutes? Detention. Have an eraser? Good, is it above a certain length? No. Detention. Basically she took her power issues out on her students and was a shitty teacher. I got detentions for all listed reasons, except for the eraser thing, my friend got that one. You can imagine that trying to write a paragraph explaining your honest mistake of forgetting an eraser is something of a stretch, but try having to write three different paragraphs about it. Yeah, What I did, What's wrong with it and What I can do to avoid it in the future, ok, now I probably should have put in there "tell her that next time she sends me here I'll send her to the morgue", but at the time I was just trying to get my head around serving a detention for something I had to do during a different class.
