"Zero Tolerance" is almost always a stupid policy.

I agree. That being said a suspension shouldn't be a vacation.

I agree. That being said a suspension shouldn't be a vacation.

My high school had ISS (in school suspension), where you sat in a tiny, windowless room for the entire day.

My high school had ISS (in school suspension), where you sat in a tiny, windowless room for the entire day.

I got sent to ISS once back in jr high for not doing my homework. Teacher booted me down there and I was told not to come back until I finished it. Got to ISS and was promptly told I couldn't work on homework there. Same when I got a detention; can't do homework here. Our school prescribed to the Springfield Elementary school of punishment; repeatedly writing one sentence over and over.

I didn't think teachers had been allowed to do the sentence over and over punishment within the last 25 years.

Why was it decided that the "writing a hundred times" was not acceptable? When I was in Catholic grade school we had a punishment where you had to take some odd number like 630,432 and subtract 3 or whatever and write every continuing equation down to zero.

Now they just do word problems involving Greek columns.

Why was it decided that the "writing a hundred times" was not acceptable?

Why was it acceptable in the first place? What does that accomplish?

Why was it acceptable in the first place? What does that accomplish?

Same here. Pretty fucked up, isn't it?

Suspensions work. Zero tolerance policies should probably be abolished though. The irony is that charters were the only schools currently using zero tolerance policies. Rauner is a big proponent of charter schools.

ThnMusic teacher had us write someling ass sentence like

I think they outlawed writing lines. It was considered corporal punishment I believe. Standing in the corner, spanking, pushing the garbage can are all considered corporal or excessive punishment. Cleaning bathrooms also.

I've never heard of "pushing a garbage can".

If you mess up the bathroom, you can clean the bathroom. You can't be assigned general maintenance as a punishment though. That's like some kind of child-labor violation or something.
No spanking obviously.
No "standing in the corner".
No wall-sits.
Writing assignments are not illegal. It's school. Kids write all day long, things they usually don't want to write. How is that different? I don't know anybody that assigns repetitive sentences - but some assign "supplemental" assignments, for lack of a better term. Not a whole lot of harm really. It's just not "fun" from the student's perspective. Consequences usually aren't fun.

I've never heard of "pushing a garbage can".

I say assign them general maintenance!