N.Y. City school gives detention to parents who get children to school late

[Cheese]

Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don't drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal's office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.

More bad parents!

How many CP parents would have to spend detention at their kids school?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Ya...thats going to work. What happens when they say **** you?

[DementedReality]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Ya...thats going to work. What happens when they say **** you?

exactly ... i would ask the school board to show me proof of jurisdiction. now, if it was a private school, they may have some leverage, but otherwise i may not tell them to f'off, but i certainly wouldnt go sit in the corner like they said.

mind you, i dont get my kids to school late either, but thats not the point.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Ya...thats going to work. What happens when they say **** you?

You don't say FU to a school that you have to apply to get your kid into and that costs probably at least $10K per year.

[moon]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

You don't say FU to a school that you have to apply to get your kid into and that costs probably at least $10K per year.

It costs 10K a year to go to public school in NY?

[drp_69]

I'd say: "bring it on".

This is ridiculous.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by moon

It costs 10K a year to go to public school in NY?

The Manhattan School for Children is NOT a public school. Or so I thought.

Public schools in NYC don't even have names...they are id'd as PS# XXX.

I wouldn't be surprised if calling it public was a mistake.

[Displaced Flames fan]

PS#333

I stand corrected.

[FlamingLonghorn]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

PS#333

I stand corrected.

It is a magnet school however and you do have to apply to go to those...

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Sowa

It is a magnet school however and you do have to apply to go to those...

Either way, that's an abuse of the school's power, IMO. Just because the rest of the public school system sucks doesn't make it ok to punish parents for having busy lives. That's seriously weak.