2006-10-19 23:38:04 · 8 answers · asked by Hi 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The King's School is a British independent school situated in Canterbury, Kent. The school is often claimed (e.g. in the Guinness Book of Records) to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, making it the world's oldest extant school.
King's has many traditions including:
Gatings: A form of punishment that requires pupils to wear Canterbury Dress all day every day or prevents them leaving the school at all for up to a week.
Gating is a type of punishment similar to a detention used typically at educational institutions, especially boarding schools. Precisely what a gating consists of and the rules surrounding it will vary between institutions, but the common element is that someone who has been gated is not permitted to leave the establishment. The word is used as both a noun and a verb.
So i guess it was invented way back in AD 597 by St. Augustine, to keep his pupils from missbehaving.
2006-10-23 16:01:14 · answer #1 · answered by wandera1970 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Invented Detention
2016-12-17 04:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me
I have been studying it
Detention is a form of punishment used in schools, where a student is required to spend extra time in school. A detention usually takes place during a period after the end of the school day. However, other times may also be used such as before the school day, weekend, and breaks in the school day, such as lunch.
A detention is typically carried out in a room that offers no amenities for leisure, so that students serving detention will have no outlet to distract them from their punishment. The students are usually monitored by a teacher, and may be required to either bring homework, sit quietly, or perform some punitive or non-punitive task, usually to decrease boredom. Such tasks may take the form of housekeeping, such as clapping blackboard erasers or picking up litter; academic such as writing an essay or answering questions on why the detention was given, or copying out paragraphs from a text, or writing out lines.
Detention is usually considered to be one the milder punishments available to a school. Multiple detentions may be given as for more severe offences. However, if detention fails to cure the student's behaviour, and for more severe behaviour, harsher punishments such as suspension, or expulsion may be used.
Pop culture references
There are numerous pop culture references to the practice of detention. For example, the opening credits to The Simpsons depicts Bart Simpson in detention, repeatedly writing some ironic phrase along the lines of "I will not instigate revolution", "I do not have diplomatic immunity", or "I will not waste chalk".
Detention was also the name of an animated series that had a brief run on the Kids' WB in 1999 and 2000.[1] The series portrayed a group of misfit middle-schoolers who were constantly in detention, scheming to overcome the obstacles that said condition presented.
The movie The Breakfast Club revolves around five disparate students bonding during a day in detention. The movie Some Kind of Wonderful features a significant detention twist — a student intentionally misbehaves in order to be placed in detention with the girl of his dreams — but later learns that she has managed to talk her way out of the punishment. However, the student ends up befriending the dangerous-looking derelicts who are regularly on detention, and they ultimately help him out in his moment of greatest need.
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2006-10-20 00:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Basement Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-28 00:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by George 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr Detention did. I was afraid to ask.
2006-10-20 18:21:19 · answer #5 · answered by whassamattu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mad teacher when they took away paddling as a form of punishment for students who need behavior modification.
2006-10-20 00:54:18 · answer #6 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some person one of thees do goodies who know it all Cretans decided they didn't like kids answering back questioning things ..... a Victorian thing children should be seen and not heard please bring it back only joking maybe small ha ha ....
2006-10-22 05:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by bobonumpty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sum evil git x
2006-10-19 23:52:36 · answer #8 · answered by LISA T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋