Definition: A brilliantly petty parental punishment where a bully is sentenced to perform menial school tasks during coveted free time. Forces them to trade power trips for actual labor, scrubbing graffiti they might’ve inspired or organizing games they ruined.
The goal isn’t just humiliation (though that’s a perk), but redirecting destructive energy into community service. It’s symbolic justice: if you weaponize recess, you become recess support staff. Works because playground social death stings worse than detention.
Example:
After shoving kids off the swings, Marco spent lunch scraping gum off benches, a stark contrast to his usual dominance games.
Jenna, who mocked the kickball teams, was assigned to organize equipment and referee, painfully aware of everyone watching her serve recess.