Does DHMS have detention after school

[Anonymous]

To clarify, I am not upset that the teachers are allowing the phones. They have a million other things to worry about this week. And if it's not the phones, it's the APS iPads. But yeah...I wish we hadn't given him one this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DHMS is lunch detention. It's not tracked and you don't get a notice as a parent. It's pretty useless as to changing your student's behavior at home, unless your student tells you they had it and what it was truthfully for.

My student at DHMS was allowed to access and use his phone throughout the day yesterday. By his teachers. Other kids confirmed this. So not sure that whole away all day thing is an actual thing?

Most of the students don't yet have access to lockers. So they aren't storing their phones there.

We took his phone this morning and he just won't have it. Makes after school more difficult but without help at school to follow the rule, not sure what else a parent can do.

You should email Ms E Smith. She’s really wonderful and receptive. When my first went through DHMS, they were really strict about the phone policy. Last year, it got lax and they had a whole thing with the students at the end of the year about how this year will be different. I’m surprised to hear that it’s not being enforced. Fwiw, they just got lockers so perhaps that will help? I fully support the no phones and so does Ms Smith so I think either backing of the parents we can collectively work to insist that the policy be as it always was and be enforced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DHMS is lunch detention. It's not tracked and you don't get a notice as a parent. It's pretty useless as to changing your student's behavior at home, unless your student tells you they had it and what it was truthfully for.

My student at DHMS was allowed to access and use his phone throughout the day yesterday. By his teachers. Other kids confirmed this. So not sure that whole away all day thing is an actual thing?

Most of the students don't yet have access to lockers. So they aren't storing their phones there.

We took his phone this morning and he just won't have it. Makes after school more difficult but without help at school to follow the rule, not sure what else a parent can do.

You should email Ms E Smith. She’s really wonderful and receptive. When my first went through DHMS, they were really strict about the phone policy. Last year, it got lax and they had a whole thing with the students at the end of the year about how this year will be different. I’m surprised to hear that it’s not being enforced. Fwiw, they just got lockers so perhaps that will help? I fully support the no phones and so does Ms Smith so I think either backing of the parents we can collectively work to insist that the policy be as it always was and be enforced.

So if kids use phones in class do they get lunch detention and parents are notified? There needs to be consequences.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??

It’s not in parentvue because they don’t want a permanent record of it. One of my kids got lunch detention for a week for sitting in the wrong seat and another time for not pushing in her chair (same ta). My other got lunch detention for a week for cheating on a quiz. They called for the cheating. I didn’t care about the chair thing.
If it’s serious, they will call. Otherwise they will not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??

It’s not in parentvue because they don’t want a permanent record of it. One of my kids got lunch detention for a week for sitting in the wrong seat and another time for not pushing in her chair (same ta). My other got lunch detention for a week for cheating on a quiz. They called for the cheating. I didn’t care about the chair thing.
If it’s serious, they will call. Otherwise they will not.

It should be up to me if an infraction is serious. Any misbehavior that warrants detection I should be notified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??

It’s not in parentvue because they don’t want a permanent record of it. One of my kids got lunch detention for a week for sitting in the wrong seat and another time for not pushing in her chair (same ta). My other got lunch detention for a week for cheating on a quiz. They called for the cheating. I didn’t care about the chair thing.
If it’s serious, they will call. Otherwise they will not.

It should be up to me if an infraction is serious. Any misbehavior that warrants detection I should be notified.

My point is that depending on the teacher, the infraction doesn’t merit detention. Some ta’s give out detention to an entire class because they are in a bad mood. Other teachers do not. Calling or notifying you means that the administration has to be involved. It adds overhead that they don’t want to do.
There’s an aps policy on discipline that it may be worth you reading. Long story short, the only official disciplinary actions that aps can take are suspensions. It’s up to the school when it’s warranted, and that’s the only time they are really required to contact you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate to hear that parents aren't notified about lunch detention, regardless of the reason. If I don't hear anything from school my assumption is that everything is going well, but I guess that's not necessarily a good assumption here. Is there a way to ask if you can be notified if your student has lunch detention? Not that I expect it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??

It’s not in parentvue because they don’t want a permanent record of it. One of my kids got lunch detention for a week for sitting in the wrong seat and another time for not pushing in her chair (same ta). My other got lunch detention for a week for cheating on a quiz. They called for the cheating. I didn’t care about the chair thing.
If it’s serious, they will call. Otherwise they will not.

It should be up to me if an infraction is serious. Any misbehavior that warrants detection I should be notified.

My point is that depending on the teacher, the infraction doesn’t merit detention. Some ta’s give out detention to an entire class because they are in a bad mood. Other teachers do not. Calling or notifying you means that the administration has to be involved. It adds overhead that they don’t want to do.
There’s an aps policy on discipline that it may be worth you reading. Long story short, the only official disciplinary actions that aps can take are suspensions. It’s up to the school when it’s warranted, and that’s the only time they are really required to contact you.

So the parents are only notified once problems have compounded and result in suspension. Explains a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DHMS is lunch detention. It's not tracked and you don't get a notice as a parent. It's pretty useless as to changing your student's behavior at home, unless your student tells you they had it and what it was truthfully for.

My student at DHMS was allowed to access and use his phone throughout the day yesterday. By his teachers. Other kids confirmed this. So not sure that whole away all day thing is an actual thing?

Most of the students don't yet have access to lockers. So they aren't storing their phones there.

We took his phone this morning and he just won't have it. Makes after school more difficult but without help at school to follow the rule, not sure what else a parent can do.

You should email Ms E Smith. She’s really wonderful and receptive. When my first went through DHMS, they were really strict about the phone policy. Last year, it got lax and they had a whole thing with the students at the end of the year about how this year will be different. I’m surprised to hear that it’s not being enforced. Fwiw, they just got lockers so perhaps that will help? I fully support the no phones and so does Ms Smith so I think either backing of the parents we can collectively work to insist that the policy be as it always was and be enforced.

So if kids use phones in class do they get lunch detention and parents are notified? There needs to be consequences.

My 8th grader is reporting that the phone policy is 100% not being enforced, kids have them in their pockets and not lockers, and teachers aren’t enforcing the off and away policy. So disappointing. Thought things were going to improve from last year with the County mandate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DHMS is lunch detention. It's not tracked and you don't get a notice as a parent. It's pretty useless as to changing your student's behavior at home, unless your student tells you they had it and what it was truthfully for.

My student at DHMS was allowed to access and use his phone throughout the day yesterday. By his teachers. Other kids confirmed this. So not sure that whole away all day thing is an actual thing?

Most of the students don't yet have access to lockers. So they aren't storing their phones there.

We took his phone this morning and he just won't have it. Makes after school more difficult but without help at school to follow the rule, not sure what else a parent can do.

You should email Ms E Smith. She’s really wonderful and receptive. When my first went through DHMS, they were really strict about the phone policy. Last year, it got lax and they had a whole thing with the students at the end of the year about how this year will be different. I’m surprised to hear that it’s not being enforced. Fwiw, they just got lockers so perhaps that will help? I fully support the no phones and so does Ms Smith so I think either backing of the parents we can collectively work to insist that the policy be as it always was and be enforced.

So if kids use phones in class do they get lunch detention and parents are notified? There needs to be consequences.

My 8th grader is reporting that the phone policy is 100% not being enforced, kids have them in their pockets and not lockers, and teachers aren’t enforcing the off and away policy. So disappointing. Thought things were going to improve from last year with the County mandate.

Ask yourself if you were a teacher whether you would take this on. I will be honest and say I wouldn’t.

I think the answer is the pouch system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DHMS is lunch detention. It's not tracked and you don't get a notice as a parent. It's pretty useless as to changing your student's behavior at home, unless your student tells you they had it and what it was truthfully for.

My student at DHMS was allowed to access and use his phone throughout the day yesterday. By his teachers. Other kids confirmed this. So not sure that whole away all day thing is an actual thing?

Most of the students don't yet have access to lockers. So they aren't storing their phones there.

We took his phone this morning and he just won't have it. Makes after school more difficult but without help at school to follow the rule, not sure what else a parent can do.

You should email Ms E Smith. She’s really wonderful and receptive. When my first went through DHMS, they were really strict about the phone policy. Last year, it got lax and they had a whole thing with the students at the end of the year about how this year will be different. I’m surprised to hear that it’s not being enforced. Fwiw, they just got lockers so perhaps that will help? I fully support the no phones and so does Ms Smith so I think either backing of the parents we can collectively work to insist that the policy be as it always was and be enforced.

So if kids use phones in class do they get lunch detention and parents are notified? There needs to be consequences.

My 8th grader is reporting that the phone policy is 100% not being enforced, kids have them in their pockets and not lockers, and teachers aren’t enforcing the off and away policy. So disappointing. Thought things were going to improve from last year with the County mandate.

Ask yourself if you were a teacher whether you would take this on. I will be honest and say I wouldn’t.

I think the answer is the pouch system.

I understand. And I don’t blame the teachers. I’m frankly a little disappointed in the admin, which truly has been fantastic in my experience otherwise. They really could insist on this policy and they aren’t. And they could be enforcing. I get they are dealing with other fires but it’s just going to make it so much harder to change behaviors and the culture anytime later in the year. They had a real opportunity to start the year off differently.

I’m so frustrated by the phones everywhere. It’s such an unhealthy environment for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Do you have google? Check the school website or even email the principal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have google? Check the school website or even email the principal

I did check the website. I’m not going to email the principal the first month of school for next year…