The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club takes place in a Saturday detention. This detention is the perfect setting for an iconic 80's movie, but was it effective discipline?

According to the "Logical Consequences" model outlined in Saphier, it is not.
This model aims to "eliminate the authoritarian use of power by parents and teachers" (Saphier 130) and to generate responses to misbehavior from a "social reality" context, in other words, the punishment fits the crime. Detention is a one size fits all model of authoritarian punishment that might lead to "outright warfare" (Saphier 130) from rebellious youngsters, according to proponents of this model.