In our middle school we had ineffective discipline last year. This year we insitiuted a new discipline plan. These are for more serious misbehavior. They stay in detention only for as long as it takes to write copy the three paragraphs to the satisfaction of the detention monitor. The teacher who assigned the detention gets the student's work.
Some students are in and out in ten minutes.
Students with multiple detentions might be there for 30 to 45 minutes. Since implementing this plan we reduced the the number of detentions assigned by half. In September 517 students were assigned detentions. Since November we've averaged less than 250 detentions a month. Thanks so much everyone.