[Teacher317]

Actual example: two girls walked into my class 5 minutes late in mid-May. One girl gets a verbal warning, because she has never been late. The other girl was suspended for 3 days, because she had been through the list of consequences: Verbal warning, written warning, lunch detention, phone call home, after-school detention (3, actually), and a one-day suspension (these were for a variety of offenses, but mostly tardiness). This was unequal treatment for the same offense, but the two girls were punished according to the progression of consequences that is published (and signed by parent and student) in every student handbook.

[summer]

...Verbal warning, written warning, lunch detention, phone call home, after-school detention (3, actually), and a one-day suspension (these were for a variety of offenses, but mostly tardiness).

People don't realize how much paperwork teachers do that is totally unrelated to teaching the subject matter at hand. All the recordkeeping you mention above takes time....