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Mintie's avatar

There it is. How silly of me to have forgotten. Then again, sometimes it's the biggest, most obvious answer that's the hardest to see.

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There was a "traditional" magnet school in my county, in which elementary school kids were expected to wear basic uniforms, but they were the same for boys and girls. (Navy pants, white shirt.) The biggest tradition they upheld was classical detention - mess up and you've got to stay after school. And detention was helping the janitors with simple tasks, not getting free homework time.

It was in the same network as the fine arts magnet school I went to, and a lot of the kids went straight from the trad elementary school to the wacky fine arts middle/high schools. So we, too, had detention be helping out the janitors with simple non chemical tasks like sweeping. :|

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