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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

Why is it not in PARENTVUE??[/quote]
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.  [/quote]

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

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