Detention

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Detention: A whole page with the phrase "I must not talk in school." Describe
Detention work: essay on behavior in school
Detention by a monk - painted door wings of a prayer chapel in Altzella

As detention is a part of a true educational measure issued written assignment, which purports to be an educational consequence. The Brothers Grimm explain the term in their German dictionary with the words that detention is a "'minor work performance imposed as a punishment' ... so in army and school .... more often in written form;" Krünitz also gave in In his Oeconomic Encyclopedia of 1858, penal labor was listed as a school punishment alongside “Carcer…., bad school reports and chasing away or removing from school”.

purpose

It is often referred to as an “additional task” by teachers in schools , as it is intended to enable students who, in the teacher's opinion, lacked the necessary attention in class to catch up on the material they missed. Even copying sentences or words several times is still part of the repertoire of this punishment .

Such educational measures are permitted in all school laws in Germany . Detention work is called additional work in pedagogical terminology.

The Focus writes:

“Writing the sentence“ I am not allowed to gossip ”50 times on a piece of paper is considered mechanical detention and is also degrading. Even copying texts page by page or writing the same word multiple times, even if this is declared as an exercise, must therefore not be expected of the students. "

One of the best-known detentions is that of the student and later mathematician Gauß , who was supposed to add the numbers from 1 to 100 and was finished after a very short time. Then one recognized his talent.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Detention work  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ detention 2). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 19 : Stob – Strollen - (X, 3rd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1957, Sp. 618 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ kruenitz1.uni-trier.de
  3. ↑ Detention replaces the cane. In: Berliner Morgenpost . July 5, 2004.
  4. ↑ Iris Röll: detention, detention, TV ban: Marco, sit! In: Focus Online . December 17, 2007, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Focus: School law: What are teachers allowed to do? (As of February 28, 2007).
  6. ↑ Barbara Esser: Discipline in school. In: Focus Online . November 10, 2007, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ matheplanet.com