“Has Anyone Heard Of Such Nonsense?”: Mum Is Left Dumbstruck After Daughter Gets Detention Because Her iPad Was On 93% Battery

There are many reasons why a kid is given detention at school. This form of disciplinary measure for misbehaving or violating academic conduct is nothing new, and some of you may even carry a distant memory of it.

But this recent story posted by a teacher and mom Selina who goes by @Missy_E36 on Twitter makes people question when it is appropriate to implement such punishment on students.

“My daughter was issued detention because her iPad, when she arrived at school, was 93%,” the mum tweeted asking if “anyone has heard of such nonsense”. Feeling totally flabbergasted, Selina contacted her daughter’s teacher via email to find out more about the incident.

Logically, other Twitter users felt equally confused about this unusual situation, so the thread became a heated debate ground for figuring out the truth somewhere between implementing detention on kids, school policy, and the percentage on an iPad battery.

To find out more about this situation, Bored Panda reached out to the mom of a daughter who got detention for arriving at school with 93% battery on her iPad. The woman said that she was puzzled as to why her daughter was given detention for something so trivial.

“Nothing like this had happened before to her or my other daughter who completed her school leaver exams recently. I’m a teacher myself and even I wouldn’t have dreamt of issuing detention for something so minor - regardless of the expectation,” the mom who’s a teacher herself told us.

Moreover, her daughter told her that the teacher went around saying those were the rules, yet other pupils in other classes were getting away with it.

The woman has since heard back from the school, but she wouldn’t like to go into detail about exactly what was said. She said that “they explained they ‘systematically tested the iPad charge’” and added that “their response in no way clarified their position or reasoning for issuing detentions and inducing unnecessary fear in the pupils.”

According to the mom, there is absolutely no reasonable grounds for these detentions or why they expected iPads to be charged to at least 97%. “Yes, the pupils use the iPads during their learning but I know that they can work effectively for the entire day at 60%. I get that it must be frustrating if several pupils' iPads suddenly died during the lesson but that shouldn’t mean they are punished for it in such an archaic way. It seems arbitrary,” she told Bored Panda.