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Smarmie Doofus

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11. That'll do it.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #10)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 07:52 PM

Mar 2014

I don't think they do that anymore. Probably have to check w. "legal" before cracking someones knuckles w. a ruler.

Did you see Sotomayor's acct of getting smacked in the face in her RC grade school? It had something to do w. her not finishing her school lunch.

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Teach prospective teachers to pass a test upaloopa Mar 2014 #1

Infinitely better system. I went thru RC schools and am a confirmed secular and agnostic. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #3

I went to RC school as well and they are good at teaching. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #4

That's interesting. My grade schoolteachers, all female, ( nuns ,mostly) I assumed to be.... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #7

I went to RC elementary school in the 80's and 90's. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #9

But they can also boot the kid if the parents or the kid are uncooperative. That's significant. Squinch Mar 2014 #5

Mine suspended them but never expelled them. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #6

Without a doubt. Funny that in the "old days".... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #8

Also, the nuns smacked us around. Squinch Mar 2014 #10

That'll do it. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #11

Some of them were doozies, that's for sure. But I also have to say that some of my best Squinch Mar 2014 #12

I liked most of the nuns. Even the scary ones worked hard and .... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #13

This is such bullshit. I got my teaching licenses in 1985 thru 1987. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #2