'My dad served my detention': Parents refuse to sign teenager's detention slip, tell administrators their kid "had 0 control" over the situation

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 23, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

This dad had a hilarious way to help out his teenager, but the kiddo was awfully embarrassed by their dad's unorthodox methods! 

When you're a teenager, you're bound to go through a phase where everything your parents do embarrasses you. They're singing while doing the dishes? Cringe! They're insisting on going to the store with you to get new clothing? OMG, no! Parents aren't even doing anything wrong, but their teenagers will be mortified regardless. 

Even so, this person's parents took their tactics to the next level. And they weren't even trying to humiliate their kid! They just wanted to stand up for their child when the kid was the target of an unfair rule. The student kept being late for school, and that's a tough question when it comes to who needs to be held accountable. Let's be real, a lot of kids are late for school all the time because their parents need to drag them out of bed and beg them to get ready to go. If your teen doesn't want to go to school, it's going to take a small miracle to get them there! But even that wasn't this kid's problem, since they were a self-proclaimed "really really good kid" who diligently tried to follow the rules. Punishing a kid like that for something way out of their control is pretty silly, as school admins found out swiftly! 

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    My Dad Served My Detention When I was a freshman in high school I went to a school that was 30+ mins drive away. They had a policy that three tardies (with a good excuse or not) across a semester would automatically assign an after school detention.
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    I was a really really good kid; never got in trouble, ever; always really nice and friendly to everybody; worked really hard at everything I did from sports to studies (even if I wasn't the best at either I tried super hard and all my teachers knew that and all had good rapport with me).
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    My parents declined to sign the detention notice and explained to administration how I had 0 control over when they left, and especially no control of road/traffic conditions even after us leaving extra early to have a time cushion (I was only late by a couple mins on the rare time I was even late), but
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    administration declined to remove the detention assignment. I asked my parents to just let it go and let me serve the stupid detention just to be done with it, or just decline and leave it at that. But they had other plans.... The next day my little professor-y looking social worker counselor dad with the big glasses, briefcase,
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    worn down notepad, and his prized 20-year-old Mont Blanc pen signed himself into the school to serve detention the next afternoon-much to the embarrassment and discomfort of the administrators. They had a hard time holding eye contact with him and were visibly uncomfortable; they found an empty room to put him and checked in on
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    him once or twice-even offered to let him leave early but he declined so he would serve the full amount of detention they assigned and wrote sentences for an hour until detention was over. To my recollection, after that there seemed to be a differentiation between excused and unexcused tardies (idk if for the whole
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    school, but for us anyway- it was never an issue for me after that. But like I said it was rare anyway to even be a couple mins late). At the time I was so embarrassed, but looking back now it's kind of funny, and I appreciate the point he was making in not letting me get punished for something I didn't do wrong and had no control over.
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    Hannookie That's a really cool dad
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    measaqueen Let he who is responsible for the crime, pay the fine!
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    TropicLush OP Yep, they wanted their 'pound of flesh' so my dad humbly obliged hahah
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    [deleted] It is ridiculous that if you arrive by car late, its a tardy. But if a bus is late, not a tardy. Literally in the same traffic.
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    TropicLush OP Totally agree.
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    The __Thoughtful___G uy Your dad has weaponized awkwardness.
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    Classic_Result You could say he's in a class all by himself.
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