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“Has Anyone Heard Of Such Nonsense?”: Mum Is Left Dumbstruck After Daughter Gets Detention Because Her iPad Was On 93% Battery
There are many reasons why a kid is given detention at school. This form of disciplinary measure for misbehaving or violating academic conduct is nothing new, and some of you may even carry a distant memory of it.
But this recent story posted by a teacher and mom Selina who goes by @Missy_E36 on Twitter makes people question when it is appropriate to implement such punishment on students.
“My daughter was issued detention because her iPad, when she arrived at school, was 93%,” the mum tweeted asking if “anyone has heard of such nonsense”. Feeling totally flabbergasted, Selina contacted her daughter’s teacher via email to find out more about the incident.
Logically, other Twitter users felt equally confused about this unusual situation, so the thread became a heated debate ground for figuring out the truth somewhere between implementing detention on kids, school policy, and the percentage on an iPad battery.
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To find out more about this situation, Bored Panda reached out to the mom of a daughter who got detention for arriving at school with 93% battery on her iPad. The woman said that she was puzzled as to why her daughter was given detention for something so trivial.
“Nothing like this had happened before to her or my other daughter who completed her school leaver exams recently. I’m a teacher myself and even I wouldn’t have dreamt of issuing detention for something so minor – regardless of the expectation,” the mom who’s a teacher herself told us.
Moreover, her daughter told her that the teacher went around saying those were the rules, yet other pupils in other classes were getting away with it.
The woman has since heard back from the school, but she wouldn’t like to go into detail about exactly what was said. She said that “they explained they ‘systematically tested the iPad charge’” and added that “their response in no way clarified their position or reasoning for issuing detentions and inducing unnecessary fear in the pupils.”
According to the mom, there is absolutely no reasonable grounds for these detentions or why they expected iPads to be charged to at least 97%. “Yes, the pupils use the iPads during their learning but I know that they can work effectively for the entire day at 60%. I get that it must be frustrating if several pupils’ iPads suddenly died during the lesson but that shouldn’t mean they are punished for it in such an archaic way. It seems arbitrary,” she told Bored Panda.
Many people felt equally flabbergasted about this whole situation
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However, some people argued that the controversial school rule made sense
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What do you think ?
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
To those saying children sometimes don’t charge devices to get out of doing work, and those saying it’s a lesson in having your equipment ready to work, neither of those scenarios are the case here. The child DID have her device charged. And it was sitting at 93%. At that percentage, you can get hours of work done. 4 extra % points won’t make any difference. Now, either of your points might apply had the child arrived with her iPad at 50% or lower. But, as several IT specialists have commented, it may have been at 100% when she unplugged it and put it in her school bag right before leaving the house, but lost 7% charge by the time she got to school. This is a school that has become rather draconian with its rules, and needs to get over itself and make sure kids can charge electronics when they need to—-and have a selection of chargers for them to borrow if they forget their own. Cripes, these are kids, ffs. Let them be kids while they can, and cut the a break for not being perfect.
Lily Francis 3 years ago (edited)
And kids don't usually do those things on purpose, it's usually because they forget to charge them, just like we adults do sometimes, because we have so much going on. Quite frankly kids really aren't that conniving or smart. ( I'm not saying they're stupid either). They just forget.
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Anna Johnston 3 years ago
I have a feeling the people who defended the ipad rule have some connection with the school's faculty and are coming to their defense. Also, could be fake accounts that are actually the faculty members trying to defend their actions lol.
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
Unless it's a brand new account or few posts or something, seems unlikely to be a fake, I can't imagine the average faculty for school to be going on an alt account to post all the time. First, could be, but I don't put it past some people to believe that without a connection needed
Load More Replies... Wilf 3 years ago
I know several schools that use laptops and tablets quite extensively. The desks all have fixed charging stands, and the kids keep their chargers at home. No problems with classroom management because it's all built in to the desks so nobody can forget a charger- and also has the added benefit of meaning the kids have a much more ergonomic set up. And speaking as a teacher- if you're using a laptop or tablet so extensively you risk emptying a 100% charged battery by the end of the day. THEN YOU'RE USING IT TOO MUCH!
Anna Banana 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking: if your lessons somehow need a full day of ipad use then it's on you to provide the charging stations. Also, I didn't even know that ipads at school were a thing now, but having the students use them for hours on end just doesn't seem like a good idea...
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Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
For all you Anti-American bigots in the comments section(par for the course on BP) This.happened.in.the.UK. All you had to do is click the name of the user at the beginning of the post, but nah, you'd rather immediately start with your standard America bashing.
Arnavet 3 years ago (edited)
it doesn't matter where it occurred, because it's an AWFUL rule and that teacher needs to be canned. This is one of the reasons this generation is going to have issues - teachers like these.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Little Napoleons doing their thing. Feebleminded people like these need to assert their "perceived" powers in order to stay relevant.
lapis lazuli 3 years ago
at my school it was just you get a warning if your ipad dies during the day. if it happens again two more times you get detention.
Gwyn 3 years ago (edited)
If kids aren't charging ipads on purpose to get out of work, then the charge is gonna be almost nothing when they show up to school. If a kid shows up and has greater than 80 percent it'll last the day. Let it go when there's a reasonable amount of charge. Also these are kids! They aren't the most consistent. They are still learning. Occasionally they'll forget. Be kind. If you don't have a charge bank or a couple spare ipads, you as a teacher are unprepared to deal with reality.
mind yours 3 years ago
why should students not have access to modern tech just because teachers are bad at their job? the ipad is incidental to this power trip, i promise you.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
To those saying children sometimes don’t charge devices to get out of doing work, and those saying it’s a lesson in having your equipment ready to work, neither of those scenarios are the case here. The child DID have her device charged. And it was sitting at 93%. At that percentage, you can get hours of work done. 4 extra % points won’t make any difference. Now, either of your points might apply had the child arrived with her iPad at 50% or lower. But, as several IT specialists have commented, it may have been at 100% when she unplugged it and put it in her school bag right before leaving the house, but lost 7% charge by the time she got to school. This is a school that has become rather draconian with its rules, and needs to get over itself and make sure kids can charge electronics when they need to—-and have a selection of chargers for them to borrow if they forget their own. Cripes, these are kids, ffs. Let them be kids while they can, and cut the a break for not being perfect.
Lily Francis 3 years ago (edited)
And kids don't usually do those things on purpose, it's usually because they forget to charge them, just like we adults do sometimes, because we have so much going on. Quite frankly kids really aren't that conniving or smart. ( I'm not saying they're stupid either). They just forget.
Load More Replies... Anna Johnston 3 years ago
I have a feeling the people who defended the ipad rule have some connection with the school's faculty and are coming to their defense. Also, could be fake accounts that are actually the faculty members trying to defend their actions lol.
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
Unless it's a brand new account or few posts or something, seems unlikely to be a fake, I can't imagine the average faculty for school to be going on an alt account to post all the time. First, could be, but I don't put it past some people to believe that without a connection needed
Load More Replies... Wilf 3 years ago
I know several schools that use laptops and tablets quite extensively. The desks all have fixed charging stands, and the kids keep their chargers at home. No problems with classroom management because it's all built in to the desks so nobody can forget a charger- and also has the added benefit of meaning the kids have a much more ergonomic set up. And speaking as a teacher- if you're using a laptop or tablet so extensively you risk emptying a 100% charged battery by the end of the day. THEN YOU'RE USING IT TOO MUCH!
Anna Banana 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking: if your lessons somehow need a full day of ipad use then it's on you to provide the charging stations. Also, I didn't even know that ipads at school were a thing now, but having the students use them for hours on end just doesn't seem like a good idea...
Load More Replies... Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
For all you Anti-American bigots in the comments section(par for the course on BP) This.happened.in.the.UK. All you had to do is click the name of the user at the beginning of the post, but nah, you'd rather immediately start with your standard America bashing.
Arnavet 3 years ago (edited)
it doesn't matter where it occurred, because it's an AWFUL rule and that teacher needs to be canned. This is one of the reasons this generation is going to have issues - teachers like these.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago
Little Napoleons doing their thing. Feebleminded people like these need to assert their "perceived" powers in order to stay relevant.
lapis lazuli 3 years ago
at my school it was just you get a warning if your ipad dies during the day. if it happens again two more times you get detention.
Gwyn 3 years ago (edited)
If kids aren't charging ipads on purpose to get out of work, then the charge is gonna be almost nothing when they show up to school. If a kid shows up and has greater than 80 percent it'll last the day. Let it go when there's a reasonable amount of charge. Also these are kids! They aren't the most consistent. They are still learning. Occasionally they'll forget. Be kind. If you don't have a charge bank or a couple spare ipads, you as a teacher are unprepared to deal with reality.
mind yours 3 years ago
why should students not have access to modern tech just because teachers are bad at their job? the ipad is incidental to this power trip, i promise you.
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