In my years at school I must have had detention (the kind they sent the letter home with you and your mom/dad had to sign it to confirm they knew you'd be late home by either 30 mins or 1 hour and why) atleast half a hundred times. Since I was picked on and was not a kid who took crap laying down I used to get most of mine for fighting. As far as my mother knew up until I was in college this is I never once served a detention. I managed to mis-inform on parents evening so she couldn't go and then forged her signature on everything from my "homework diary" to my detention slips. Hell I even forged it on some field trips since I paid for a fair few out of my own pocket. If my mom ever questioned anything about me being late home I was either studying at the library or over a mates house playing computer games she never used to check. Yes my mom cared for me in her own way but she gave me a lot of freedom, perhaps too much.