What is "detention"?

What is "detention"?

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Detention is a consequence that's routinely used in school systems up and down the land to correct negative behavior from a student. If the student is, say, tardy to class after a certain amount of times, student behaves inappropriately in a classroom setting, often times, there's a counselor, perhaps an assistant principal, who makes an intervention and assigns an hour of detention as a natural consequence.