[lesser_satan]

Here's how it worked when I was in junior high:

They lock you up in a little room with some hideous gorgon-like creature to watch over you. You're not allowed to speak. In fact, the only thing you're allowed to do is homework.

In-school suspension is usually doled out when detention is deemed too lenient and out-of-school suspension too harsh. However, when I found out I was getting in-school suspension, I would usually do something bad enough to bump my punishment up to out of school suspension, which in actuality is much easier.

[SoldierDad]

They lock you up in a little room with some hideous gorgon-like creature to watch over you.

The person who supervises the students in the "in-school suspension" room at the middle school where I work is a drop dead gorgeous young woman. I suspect that many of the male students who are placed there have an ulterior motive for getting kicked out of class.

[Feiny]

"However, when I found out I was getting in-school suspension, I would usually do something bad enough to bump my punishment up to out of school suspension, which in actuality is much easier."

BRILLLIANT (read that like the Guinness guys)