Filling in this role as a lunch detention personnel is not my role. I really don't care to sit here and play the role as tyrant to these children. Telling them what they can and cannot do, frankly the whole thing is boring and tiring for both parties. This brings up the question of what other system in place to ensure that these children learn their lessons. The way I see it they are sitting here and not really contemplating on what they did wrong. If any sort of punishment were to work it would have to be immediate. I think that whole system needs to be redone so that the students change their behavior. There are so many repetitive offenders in here and it gets so packed in the detention room.
Most of the students at the high school level are wanting to be in detention because it gives them an out of class pass. Detention is to get you out of class and not really doing anything but be silent. At the elementary level silence is hard for children and does not really work. So the children start to associate silence with being in trouble. What about being meditative and wanting to be quiet. I don't think that is really a point but a thought. I really would like to see an effective way to deal with behavior issues rather than just putting kids in a box and telling them to not say anything. Children are meant to be loud, sociable, and outgoing. It is in their nature to be curious about their surroundings. Children also do what their parents do and adapt rather quickly to their environment. For example, children spend a great deal of time observing the attitudes of their parents and usually begin to demonstrate similar outlooks.
Children, naturally, want to be loud and express themselves. They are so young and are now learning about things. Children are not supposed to know how to act like adults, yet. But their home environments are the ones who create these unacceptable behaviors. If we were to do anything to impact children with behavior problems the best outlet is to look into helping their parents. That task is a huge one and there is really nothing that can be done but encourage the parents to open up to change. But that rarely happens because many people resist change and stick to what they know.
Children all want to interact and tell you stories of different thing in their lives. Once you get a subject going they love to be involved. It is our system of education and the way we want them to be. I think in all the institutions we lose the children somewhere in all the mess of getting them to be one way. Trying to mold their young minds to do what society wants them to do. It is really interesting to think about how we are programmed to be like this or like that. In all our programming can we really say that we are unique? Can we really lay claim to that? The entire thing is really interesting but at the same time there is little to be done. Because nobody really wants to sit there to figure it all out, and devote time to come up with better solutions. We have all grown accustomed to the detention way of doing things. If you break this law then you go to some form of detention, in adult world its jail, where there are more rules to follow.
Everywhere and everyday there are rules that needs to be followed. Rules are what we are governed by and sometimes those same rules do not work in our favor. But we have to abide by it follow them.
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