Yesterday evening Cici brought a paper to me.  It was from her school, and it said that she must go to detention after school today.  What happened, I asked?  I still couldn't believe what I was reading, especially when I saw it was the band director who had sentenced her to detention.

He did this to many of the students in band, Cici told me, but when I received this paper from the office and was told why it was being given to me, I showed them my shirt.  They told me to see the band director tomorrow morning and he will revoke (my word) the detention.

What happened is that Cici was wearing a shirt that was not tucked into her skirt.  She was wearing a partially buttoned sweater over the shirt.  All the teacher saw was an untucked shirt.  But the shirt Cici was wearing was not made to be tucked in, and the school rules don't require those shirts to be tucked.  The teacher failed to learn the facts before putting her name on the detention list.

I will send the band director an email now and get this straightened out, I told Cici.  No, she urged me to wait and let her talk to the band director this morning.  Good, she will try to handle this herself, I thought.  Just call me if he doesn't remove the detention from your record, I told her.

I suspect what happened is that some of the band students were showing up for band, which is their first classof the day, without dressing properly.  Cici just got caught up in the band director's frustration.  He is a really nice guy, and the students try to take advantage of him.

To Cici's credit, she was't upset about the incident.  I was, because I know the stigma of having a detention on your school record.  She is confident that the matter will be resolved without me needing to get involved.  I hope she is right.  If nothing else, getting her record cleared might help build her confidence about justice in the school.