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If you haven't heard or don't know what Homework Detention is, it's a form of discipline that penalizes students who don't do their homework.
I've been to one school that did this, I just want to say that it was very overused and very harsh. Teachers would give you homework detention for missing ONE homework assignment. It was like being punished for missing one day of swimming class.
The schools that do this needs to get back to reality. It's okay to punish students who don't do their homework, but have to give them detention for missing one assignment just proves that you are desperate. Homework isn't really that important. At the school I'm at now, the teachers are not even uptight about such an obsessive assignment. They're not even going to ask or keep you after school.
Is homework detention necessary?
I graduated from High School with a 1.62 GPA. Only because I didn't do my homework. I aced my tests. I placed in the 95%+ on the standardized testing.
The whole idea is supposed to be about learning the material.
The very idea that there should be punishment for solely not doing homework just does not compute in my brain. Even the idea of punishing a kid for not learning something, just does not compute. As if punishing them is going to make them comply.