Editorial Illustration for Scoala9 about detention in Romanian schools
Illustration for Raluca Cristea's article titled "A school year with "detention" rooms. Pardon, "study" rooms".
“Starting this school year, schools can move students who disrupt classes to another room, where they spend their time completing worksheets or reading. The measure, implemented in over 1,400 schools in 25 counties, has transformed, in many cases, the library into a space for this punishment.
Doru Căstăian also explains that detention is not a form of motivation, but a punishment, a "breaking of the individual from the social group that highlights him negatively." "The idea is to cause the child discomfort so that he avoids ending up in that situation in the future. It's a kind of attempt to create a conditioned reflex."
