Detentions

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...>
wrote:
> http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,865173,00.html
> 
> What would they make of Hogwarts style detentions? (-8
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately |webpage: 


Quotes from Article-
European Convention on Human Rights - Under Article 5 of the European
Convention, detention can only take place if there is a "lawful order".

He (the lawyer) said this would mean that a detention due to run in a
child's free time, as it had in Freya's case, could not come from the
school itself but would need this legal authority.
-end quotes-

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the word 'detention' as used in a
civil right law, refer to unlawful imprisonment? As in, you can not be
held in detention, jail, prison, or locked confinement without due
process of law.

This girl was made to stay inside during the lunch hour (or half
hour), she was not deprived of her freedom, she was not locked in a
prison, I suspect she was not deprived of her lunch either. They are
taking a broad general use of the word 'detention' and applying a very
specific meaning to it; a meaning which does not truly reflect the
action of this detention.

I would have to ask, how many other student got this many detentions?
At some point didn't occur to her that maybe she should stop screwing
up if she didn't like detention? Is this girl so deluded into
believing that she is the center of the universe and that all things
exist to serve her, that she has no grasp of the function of the world
around her?

Too many kids today (more so in the US) have a unrealistic sense of
priviledge that tells them that they always get their way and they
always get what they want. That they are above the rest and that
because of their status as a high school jock, or just general
megalomaniac, the world should yield to their desires. Can you spell
Draco Malfoy?

This is exactly the leason we are suppose to learn from Draco Malfoy.
Draco sees himself as priviledged. By virtue of the fact that he
exists, he should be the center of the universe, the center of
everyone's attention, and should be given freedoms and priviledges
that other mere mortals do not deserve, and should be above the rules
that govern the mere mortals of the mudane world. 

The problem Draco has with Harry is that Harry is stealing all of
Draco's attention, and I do mean stealing as in the theft of something
that by right of birth belongs to Draco. Draco and only Draco is
worthy of being the Crown Prince of Hogwarts and the King of all
Slytherins; the hero, the champion, desired and admired by all but
virtue of nothing more than the fact that he is Draco Malfoy. No need
for achievement, no need for honor or character or integrity, no need
for a sense of justic and fair play, no need for skill or talent, no
need to prove his greatness; these things are not proven or establish,
they are assumed as his birthright. 

Ooooouuuuuuu! People like this just frost my buns.


Of course, that's just my opinion.

bboy_mn