Maine school takes new approach to detention, sending misbehaving students on a 3-mile-hike

Maine school takes new approach to detention, sending misbehaving students on a 3-mile-hike

School detention has long been a method of managing—or at least attempting to manage—student behavior, the idea being that forcing kids who clearly don't love being in school to spend even more hours being bored out of their gourd in a classroom might make them change their ways. The efficacy of detention has long been debated among educators and administrators, but one high school in Maine has started providing an alternative to traditional det…