LUNCH detention is bad already, and it’s only just started.

They take your phones away at the start and won’t give them back until the end of the school day, which is neither ideal nor fun.

And that’s not all! They make you sit in a class that is quite full of kids to make the torture worse. If you are too loud next to the person next to you, you will be moved, so you can’t even be with friends, which makes the classroom quiet. The teachers are very strict, constantly walking around to check that students are doing their work. If you get caught sleeping, you might as well serve the overnight suspension.

While in detention, a student successfully snuck his phone past the admin but was caught using it during class, resulting in an immediate overnight suspension and a meeting with a parent/guardian to discuss it with the administration. Overall, the teachers are very on point; if you put your head down, you’re also in for an instant overnight suspension. If you’re doing nothing (and you’re supposed to be doing work right when you sit down), you get in trouble. The teachers are very hard on everybody in there, so students will never want to return to lunch detention, and they’ll start being on time to class.

I thought it was worse; they are not excusing first-period tardies. Hence, you really have to be on point and early to classes, which is a big problem due to many students being tardy every morning because of traffic. All these tardy students make the lunch detention room really full, and I think the rules are too harsh on students, since it isn’t always easy to get to first period early. Not every student has access to transportation to school.

I say that they shouldn’t have to excuse 1st period, but be more flexible on the passing periods or right after lunch ‘cause I feel like people tend to be more late or just might as well skip classes. Still, everything with them taking the phone is their policy, which is understandable in lunch detention, mostly. I’d say, if you don’t want your phone taken away, just keep it in your pouch.

Honestly, it is very droughting and boring — you’ll probably stare off into the class with how quiet it is in there, I would not want to return there because they are really strict. Honestly, it is very avoidable. I’d say they need to be more flexible in the first period. If anything, I’d say there should be more input to passing periods and more strict rules due to students always walking around daily skipping in the halls, doing laps, and such. Lunch detention is putting students on track and, so far, is making a big impact, which I think would decrease tardies. Get to class early so you don’t end up in lunch detention.