The Daily Show - Violent Buddhists Target Muslims in Myanmar - 9/13/17
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&t=125sNobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes heat for ignoring the Buddhist-led ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people.
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Went 8 years to Catholic school, had my hand slapped with a ruler a few times..for a girl that was lotsa times 
I figured out that my second grade teacher was 87 when she taught my class. It was her last class before she retired and sometimes got kids names mixed up with their parents - evidently she taught them, too! It was a small town - she was also the school principal. She was from another era and she used a ruler! 
no paddles with holes, so I guess we got off light? The 50's by the way.
I forgot to say 
And we had that too - but only in that small town. Fourth grade was worse, that teacher was also a principal and she had a "paddle room." There were a couple of incorrigible boys in my third grade class and I know they got sent there. My Dad's job meant we moved a lot and I went to other elementary schools before and after, including one private school, and never ran into it anywhere else. This would have been the early '60s...
I think the principal used a ping pong paddle, that had to be bad enough. If that happened at your school, was it okay with the parents? That sounds especially brutal. Things have changed, parents these days tend to side with their kids instead of the teachers.
When I was in school, I was on the rifle team. I was the first and only girl. They guys on my team were fine with me, but the guys we competed against at the all boys' schools were not. The boys at a military school shut me outside (but it was too late, my score was already in) and the boys at Christian Brothers gathered to razz me as soon as I got off the bus. My cousin had a friend there who came out and warned me, but it was still pretty disconcerting. 
boys only school, where a lot of us weren't used to being in the company for females of the same age, until much later. That said, the bullying by girls towards other girls can be quite vicious.
This is the leather I was talking about
It was allowed until I was about 14, when corporal punishment was outlawed nationally in Ireland. What I found is that good teachers didn't need to use it anyway, and the bad ones were exposed when it was banned.
Growing up in New York, I went to schools with both boys and girls - until high school and college. Seems a little strange now, but back then (1970s) it was more common to find single gender schools at that level rather than at the elementary level. But it's not so common anymore. I was in the last all female graduating class for my (private) high school and most of the all female colleges I'm familiar with - including mine - started admitting guys long ago.
And these days is corporal punishment still used in schools anywhere? I went to several elementary schools growing up and the two schools I attended in that small town were the only place I ran across it. These days, I'm sure parents wouldn't stand for it. It used to be that parents mostly sided with the teachers, but now it seems like teachers are confronted with angry parents if they try to enforce any sort of discipline in the classroom... 
She's wearing a lot of loose fitting clothing, and that's not a good thing when operating a chainsaw, or any machinery for that matter.
I'm sure god will keep an eye on her though. 
I suppose the cloistered groups might, but the nuns I've seen relatively recently just wear street clothes. But that doesn't make the joke nearly as funny.
And I belonged to brownie and girl scout troops that were affiliated with the Catholic Church in my neighborhood. There was a retired priests' home affiliated with the church and we kids knitted squares to be made into afghans for the elderly priests. But we never got to deliver them or meet the priests living right next door. I was pretty young, but I remember being told that we couldn't visit because we were girls. 
I swallowed a marble and the nuns took me to the convent to have me eat a few prices of bread? Not sure if those were doctors orders, or just a hunch..but as you can tell, the marble didn't kill me
The rectory? The Priest's house? Never seen the inside of it!
My friend who went to the local Catholic School wanted to visit her favorite teacher and I don't remember a problem about us being there, but she wasn't in. As a teenager, what struck me was that they had a sign-out sheet just like the one we had for the dorm at my boarding school.
There used to be two convents in the town where I live, both affiliated with a church. But neither of them are convents now, one's a men's half way house and the other has been turned into upscale condos.
or maybe that was a stock photo? I can't imagine anyone having a portfolio of "Nuns with chainsaws" photos though.
I must have missed that the first time through.
