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Were your teachers harsh when you committed mistakes?

Posted - November 15, 2017
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  • 16240
    Nuns can be brutal.
      November 16, 2017 3:19 AM MST
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  • 44228
    I heard that the smaller the nun, the bigger the stick.
      November 16, 2017 7:11 AM MST
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  • 9872
    The nuns who taught me were very kind. I guess some school children had a different experience, whether in a parochial or public school.
      November 16, 2017 4:34 AM MST
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  • 7683
    You were fortunate, Jane, thank goodness!
      November 17, 2017 11:29 PM MST
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  • 6098
    No did not see them as that way. 
      November 16, 2017 4:44 AM MST
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  • Some of the nuns were pretty old school and harsh.
    Finger drilling into forehead
    ruler on knuckles
    Water bucket stands
    palmings
      November 16, 2017 5:51 AM MST
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  • 7683
    Oh NOOO Glis;((
      November 17, 2017 11:30 PM MST
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  • Meh...  It was only for a few years.  I was there at the cusp of when the times changed.  Some old style but on it's way out.  By time i made it to 4th grade that stuff was over with. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 17, 2017 11:36 PM MST
      November 17, 2017 11:32 PM MST
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  • 7683
    But that was corporal punishment, Glis!
      November 17, 2017 11:38 PM MST
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  • Yep, it was.  Oddly enough I didn't really start to hate school with passion until a few years after that stuff was banned.
    It was the norm to us those years.  You act up,  you get cracked with a ruler or made to do a water bucket stand outside the door for 10 min.
      November 17, 2017 11:40 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Ruler was used quite liberally in our school too but aimed at boys, girls were always pinched painfully on the face...those who had chubby cheeks were pinched most violently! 
    I dunno wat a water bucket stand means?
      November 17, 2017 11:44 PM MST
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  • Have to stand still holding water buckets with you arms out. 
      November 17, 2017 11:49 PM MST
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  • 44228
    Rarely...if ever. In the rare instances that I did err, I was corrected and continued on with my assignment. The only time I was treated harshly, I went class without my shirt tucked in . The teacher warned me to tuck it in or he would throw me out and might not open the door.
      November 16, 2017 7:15 AM MST
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  • Getting thrown out of class and not let back in was all I could ever asked for in priso--er- I mean school.
      November 16, 2017 7:34 AM MST
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  • 7683
    Thankfully ...not so harsh treatment!
      November 17, 2017 11:31 PM MST
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  • I had one teacher, igrade seven, grab Me by back of hair and slam my head against my desk for talking too much in class... I still hate her gutz .. and I still talk too much ;)
      November 16, 2017 2:07 PM MST
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  • 32663
    Did your parents do anything? I would be beating me a teacher.
      November 16, 2017 2:22 PM MST
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  • I honestly don't think I ever told them... I was more embarressed than anything else. I think she felt bad afterwords... was just an awkward moment for everyone in the room. I never forgot it though.
      November 16, 2017 2:25 PM MST
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  • 32663
    Wow. I hope my kids would tell me if a teacher did something like that....she should not be teaching.

      November 16, 2017 2:59 PM MST
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  • Absolutely, I think she had just reached her end with me. Not that that makes it okay. Also I didn't have a great relationship with my mother,  and had no relationship with my father at the time. I can't imagine any child would put up with that now, I hope not anyway. 
      November 16, 2017 3:03 PM MST
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  • 7683
    How DARE she...Jamie;(( She is a beast...!
    It is every girl's right to talk too much...good you realized that so young, Jamie;))
      November 17, 2017 11:33 PM MST
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  • would take a lot more than that to shut me up :)
      November 18, 2017 9:06 AM MST
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  • 3375
    I had one sadistic teacher when I was in second grade.  She was an ugly old spinster that had no compassion for little kids.  I remember her yelling at me for having tangled hair.  I came from a place where no one got up in the morning to tend to such things.  This witch made me sit in a chair in front of the class while she took a comb through it in an act of pure shaming. 

    Back then, you didn't tell your parents.  You assumed your parents would be on their side.  

    I never forgot it or her.
      November 16, 2017 2:23 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Sighhh that was brutal;((
      November 17, 2017 11:34 PM MST
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