Detention is associated with primarily punishment, where one spends that detention, can produce beautiful and rewarding fruitage, but for others, hate, disgust, even thoughts of revolution, enter the brain trust.
Here lately, the world has seen the use of detention as primarily PUNISHMENT!
Imprisonment is a form of detention, and one of the “olive branches” available may be some form of mental rehabilitation. So, coming out of DETENTION, could be an “aha!” moment for some.
Since my articles concentrate on the black culture in Baltimore Maryland, and the future is our Youth, learning is of high priority.
In 2022 our average score for eighth graders was 241. In similar larger cities, it was 255.
The 2023 score is not better.
In the first week of this month, May, saw the revival of the Maryland Film Festival, with Baltimore being the center piece. Apart from Governor Wess’s speech, there was the showing a little-known film with profound messages about the Baltimore Education system; the film is titled DETENTION.
A teacher detains a group of black high school students, where her detention tactics are unconventional, however the results could gain nods of approval. Could Baltimore use any of this today for its youth?
After the showing of the film (Made in1998) I talked with the director, DARRYL WHARTON-RIGBY,(who teaches at Temple University in Japan), and one of the participants, KEISHA (Poochie), (now a grandmother).
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