I was always in detention, the principles office or ISS...anything just to get me out of class. I'd usually end up on some art project for the principle...which was fine by me, but the rest of the time it was a study hall type scene, or ISS was behind the stage and we'd do worsheets. You meet the most interesting people durring that type of stuff....
i don't think i ever got detention in middle school. in high school, we had 2 kinds of detention. lunch detention, was the first one,for relatively minor offenses. you had to sit up at the front of auditorium/lunchroom, at a table, on the stage. you were not allowed to talk, or laugh, no matter how many of your friends at other tables were pointing and laughing at you. the second was in school detention. you had to go sit in a classroom with other troublemakers, and copy sections from the school handbook. you copied the section that covered whatever your misbehavior was. so for skipping school, you had to copy the attendence policy over and over again. if they couldn't specifically find a section that covered your misbehavior, they just picked one at random. it was kind of boring, but not actually much worse than regular class.
I got an in-school suspension for smoking in the boy's room? The bathroom was right across the hall from the gym where the winter carnival activities were going on,so it didn't take long for most people to know about it before the teacher to even walked me down to the principal's office.
The only time that I ever got detention was in the 1st grade. My friend got detention too and basically we sat in this room during lunchtime and talked. It was silly.
In Jr. High, we had to sit in the auditorium for the assigned period of time (No less than a week) all day. It was fun, I did anything to get detention. In Sr. High, we have to stay after school for 2 hours writing each page of our agenda book that is assigned to us at the beginning of each year. After one session of this, you learn to stay out of trouble, or not get caught.
I got my detention for going into the boys bathroom There was no detention in my high school. There was really no discipline at all. They'd just threaten to expell you over and over again. Happened to me a lot.