New York school gives parents detention with tardy children
The Associated Press
Published: October 1, 2006
NEW YORK A public school in New York City is blaming parents for the
tardiness of their children and is making the moms and dads serve detention.
Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who do not
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.
"The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get
them to school on time," principal Susan Rappaport told the New York Post
for Sunday editions.
Some tardy parents at the school, which has 660 pupils in kindergarten
through eighth grade - about ages 5 through 14 - complained the detention
was making them late for work. But most approved of it, saying they've been
humiliated by detention and won't show up late again.
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