Mount Carmel school officials announce plans to make the MC detention experience more fun and entertaining
Mount Carmel school officials announce plans to make the MC detention experience more fun and entertaining
Ever since the founding of Mount Carmel High School in the fall of 1900, school leaders have longed for a more fun, more engaging experience. Attempts from the past to improve have included the introduction of intramurals, but this was only a glimpse of the things to come.
The time has finally come for a more full change—Mount Carmel has announced plans for a better, more exciting future for MC detention.
The first step of transformation in the detention space is currently occurring. A new floor is being installed in the Alumni Gym, creating a clean, avant garde look. This is just the first of many planned changes to the gym. More plans include adding gaming chairs, bean bags, and even starting some 3-on-3 basketball during Wednesday detentions. Additionally, the Mother’s Club has expressed interest in starting a bake sale for students serving detention to help diminish the cost of all these upgrades.
“My weekly detentions before and after school have been such a bore up until now,” detention-regular Adrian Farquhar said after the new announcement. “Now I am actually looking forward to the dreaded Wednesday.”
The detention of the past was a wearisome, boring process. Men of Carmel originally swept the floors, and when they were done, which was usually after three hours, they went home. There has been some reform in detention by diminishing the cleaning responsibilities of the students, but the MC community agrees that it definitely hasn’t reached its full potential.
“A great school like Mount Carmel has to have great detention attached,” said Dean of Students Mr. Dan O'Connor. “A lot of hard-working men and women have stepped up to the challenge to make this dream a reality by starting Go-Fund-Me’s and convincing vice-principal Mr. Bill Nolan that change in detention is a good idea.”
As news about Mount Carmel’s planned transformation of the detention experience spreads, surrounding schools, such as Brother Rice, are trying to make their own punishment reformation. However, on their first attempt, they upgraded their detention to be in a semi-trailer. This is not the type of luxury, high-class detention that Mount Carmel is planning.
This is not the end. Adding VR and gaming sets for Saturday JUG is being hotly debated.