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청원서는 다음 주소로 보내집니다. Northcote high school
As advised by the Victorian Department of Education
Detention
Detention may be an appropriate response for a wide range of less serious classroom and school behaviour breaches. Detention can effectively reinforce to students the importance of maintaining appropriate behaviour standards.
Schools are permitted to require students to attend before or after school detention but are encouraged to take into account family circumstances and negotiate with parents and carers as appropriate.
During detention teachers may instruct a student to finish schoolwork which has not been completed in regular classroom time as a result of the behaviour, new work or other duties.
Schools must:
- consider local circumstances when determining what a reasonable time and place for detention entails
- make sure any special conditions relating to the imposition of detention are specified in the school's student engagement policy
- consider any other special circumstances, including whether a student has a disability. For example, a student with a disability may not understand that the detention is a consequence of their behaviour.
Student Engagement
- Every government school must have a local student engagement policy.
- The student engagement policy includes:
- details in relation to monitoring daily attendance of each student and strategies to promote and improve attendance
- policies and procedures that ensure that the care, safety and welfare of students is in accordance with any applicable State and Commonwealth law (including student welfare and bullying, cyberbullying and harassment)
- policies relating to the discipline of students that are based on principles of procedural fairness and include an explicit statement that corporal punishment is not permitted
Under the Northcote High School Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
“Students who may have a complaint or concern about something that has happened at school are encouraged to speak to their parents or carers and approach a trusted teacher or a member of the school leadership team. Further information about raising a complaint or concern is available in our Complaints Policy.”
“Our school considers, explores and implements positive and non-punitive interventions to support student behaviour before considering disciplinary measures such as community service, detention, withdrawal of privileges or withdrawal from class.”
“Disciplinary measures may be used as part of a staged response to inappropriate behaviour in combination with other engagement and support strategies to ensure that factors that may have contributed to the student’s behaviour are identified and addressed. Disciplinary measures at our school will be applied fairly and consistently. Students will always be provided with an opportunity to be heard.”
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Currently Northcote high students are required to attend lunch time detention after being late to a single class.
- The Victorian Department of Education dictates that schools must “make sure any special conditions relating to the imposition of detention are specified in the school's student engagement policy.” Despite this, there is no mention of automatic detention as a result of tardiness to classes or any reference to any form of generalized, schoolwide punishment anywhere in the school’s Student Engagement Policy or in the Attendance Policy.
- Northcote High School claims that it considers and implements “positive and non-punitive interventions” before considering disciplinary measures such as detention. However, to my knowledge, no other methods were trialled before arriving at detention as the best solution.
- It is inconsistent with our school values of fairness and respect to utilise punishment so liberally. Detention is imposed without regard for circumstance or tolerance for human error. This is both unfair and disrespectful to students.
- It is entirely unhelpful to send students to detention. It does not make up for lost class time, and it wastes further time for both teachers and students. Most cases of lateness experienced by myself and my peers are due to the following reasons:
- A student is slowed in transit to class and cannot make it there on time, or
- A student misses a room change on Compass and travels to the wrong place.
Neither of these are the choice of the student, and punishment is not effective if it targets a behaviour that the student is not in control of.
- The problem of widespread lateness could be solved in a far more positive manner, specifically by increasing the time between the warning bell and the actual bell. Presently, there is barely enough time to travel to a locker, wait for other people to finish with their lockers so you can access yours, take all the required items from your locker, then travel to your classroom. If the warning bell was brought earlier by only a few minutes, there would be a sufficient time margin to reasonably expect students to be in class on time.
- If detention is truly the desired solution as an incentive to arrive on time, it should at least be implemented with an increased warning bell delay so that students are given ample opportunity to stay out of detention if they really want to.
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I go to this school, and the detentions are kind of getting too strict like Miss Class by a minute or having to go get materials during class, which means detentions is kind of over the top
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Because I am a student myself and have been very stressed in the environment of detention and find it unfair