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What is “Saturday detention”? That sounds awful.

• seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  It’s where you have to go to school for detention session on a Saturday morning. In school is detention during school hours (popular in the south), out of school is just not being able to come to school.
  • asark 7y ago
    Notably, out of school detention is punishment aimed at the student's parents, not at the student, in most cases. Rarely a student who actually cares about school and their grades will receive it as punishment, and even more rarely this will be for non-BS (political) reasons. Good students can avoid BS (and much non-BS) punishment by being on a sports team, the more important (well-funded), the better, and the more important their role on it, the better. School in the US is weird.
• estebank 7y ago
  Watch The Breakfast Club for a primer. From what I can tell it's only a thing in the US, and before moving here I thought it was, like many other things, just a literary device. Alas it's real.