Associated Press

New York — A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.

Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don't drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the Principal's office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.

"The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get them to school on time," principal Susan Rappaport told the New York Post.

Some tardy parents at the, school, which has 660 pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade, complained the detention made them late for work. But others approved, saying they felt humiliated and won't show up late again.

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from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
Sunday, October 15, 2006

i guess that might work with the younger kids but what will the school do with the older kids that walk to school.... or if their sibling in high school takes them to school.... seems kind of stupid to me.