What's the point of detention? To just sit in a boiling room for 25 minuets filling in a sheet on how your organisation is screwed?

So origin story: 2 days ago I was about to go home from school when mum says to me:

"Oh yea by the way you have detention on Friday because of late homework's."

I feel like she was expecting me to get a detention at one point as she didn't seem mad or frustrated. She did tell me not to tell dad about it as his logic is "Just do it."

The school's reasoning on this was:

When you were in the lower school*, you wouldn't be punished as much (even though I got 32 late homework's in the span of 6 months) as you were still adjusting to secondary school, but now you are in middle school**, so stop being a dimwit and remember to write the homework down you moron.

Okay it wasn't worded like that but that's the impression i got off it.

They said that it was mandatory to attend (in the second half of lunch, which if you didn't know is where the lunch line isn't a freaking millipede, so I had to speedrun down the hallways to get to the front of the queue;) so I could "Improve my organisation skills."

Me and 4 other people (including one of my friends) just sat in a quiet room with no air conditioning while I was staring at the clock. The sheet I mentioned earlier had 2 tasks:

• Write down the homework you get each day into the timetable and work out a time to do it (the times on the grid went up to 9 o'clock, like what student is doing homework that late!?)

• Write a paragraph to say how important homework is and how you should get it in on time (yes that's what it actually said, XD)

Except my subjects don't really stick to a timetable, most of them just give homework out whenever they feel like it, so that was fun. When it came to the paragraph I just went on a passionate rant on how I found it annoying that I was being punished for just bad organisation and memory.

It went along the lines of:

Do homework. Idk why but just do homework. Hand in your homework on time so you don't end up in a boiling room writing about how screwed your organisation is. You could be drawing manga right now but nooooo.

The second I was let out, me and my friend went over to my other friend to complain about how boring it was (the teacher literally said at the beginning to complete the sheet slowly because "we were going to be here for a long time.") My friend put for the second question just some polite essay about "how homework was used as a punishment and we should have free time at home" meanwhile I was going on a full on twitter rant while doodling baguettes with wheels on at the corner of the page.

Also we couldn't even keep the timetables at the end so what was the point of that??

Note: I had 6 late homework's from December to March, the one in English was because I forgot to write it down in my planner, the one in Food Tech was because I finished the homework in the lesson but forgot to hand it in and the one in geography was again, because i forgot to write it down in my planner. No idea where the other 3 geography ones came from, maybe my teacher just hates me.

*year 7 and 8 (11-13)

**year 9-11 (13-16)