What punishments did you endure at grade school?

[undeterred]

I got sent in the hall in first grade, which was just embarassing.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. I went to Catholic School until the 2nd grade. They would arrested by

today's standards .....

[DanCa]

3. Crazy we got to share these stores. I still got ruler marks on my knuckles

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. A teacher broke my wrist in 2nd grade by slamming the end of a book

on it.

[DanCa]

7. Once I called mother suprerior crazy

as in your so crazy. I really meant it as a compliment. She took it the wrong way and had me scrubbing down the outside bannister the whole day in 20 degree weather. Note dont ever tell a joke to a nun.
Another time I brought a rock cd to school - forget which one. Sister Vee had me kneeling on rice for an hour because she thought it was satanic. Oh god I need therapy again.

[AllegroRondo]

33. I still have bead marks on my arm

from being whipped with a rosary

[KitchenWitch]

2. I can beat that,

I got sent to the kindergarten room when I was in first grade. Utterly humiliating.

[undeterred]

4. I got fake spankings on my birthday, which I hated.

Today that warty old lady would get arrested for it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I once had to paint

"Romani ite domum" on the wall a hundred times. :blush:

[undeterred]

8. Romans go home?

I was told to write "I will act like a young lady and not like an idiot" 100 times but my mother protested the word "idiot" and got the teacher in trouble with the prinicpal. It was the only time she ever stood up for me.

[pokerfan]

15. Latin is a dead language

Latin is a dead language
It's plain enough to see
First it killed the Romans
And now it's killing me

[elshiva]

9. Had to sit on the bench for 3 minutes at recess.

[democracyindanger]

10. Had to sit in the corner with a dunce cap on. Seriously.

In the 4th grade, our class was doing 'Pioneer School Week,' and a couple times a day the teacher would switch on 'Pioneer School Mode' where she ran it like a class on the prairie. I got busted for talking, and had to sit on a stool in the front of the class with a big ol' conical dunce cap on.

[undeterred]

11. I would like to check her research on the use of

the dunce cap in that era.

[democracyindanger]

12. Please do.

'Cause it scarred me for life.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. My 4th grade teacher gave me the "face grab"

We'd performed with our recorders in an assembly; and after we returned to the classroom, I realized I'd forgotten it. I was very upset...in tears because my parents had spent 2 whole dollars on the recorder. I asked my teacher if I could quickly go retrieve it, and she told me I'd have to wait.

I started to go back to my desk, and the next thing I knew, she was pinching my face hard between her thumb and forefinger, and yelling at me for "making a defiant gesture"...which I hadn't done...her eyeballs wildly wiggling around the way they did when she was angry. Scared the shit outta me. She was a pretty neat teacher except for the times that she went ballistic...

[astonamous]

14. A couple of times had to wear tape on my mouth all day...

except lunch time. Many times I was made to spend recess inside due to talking.

I only got sent to the office for fighting. That was the time that I fought because a bunch of kids called my friend the "N" word. I was in 2nd grade and went crazy and tried to defend her by taking on all of them. Even though I am a huge fan of Richard Pryor, I even work for him, ok now it's just his widow, I still can not say the word, can't stand the word.

Trudy

[LisaL]

16. None. Although I was falsely accused of stealing

other students money once.

[NaturalHigh]

17. You wouldn't believe how many times I was paddled

in elementary school.

[fight4my3sons]

29. I was paddled once.

It was when we lived in a very small town and I attended a one room school house. I was in 6th grade and fell off of a piece of playground equipment. I said "shit" and the new teacher, also the new minister of the church next door saw it fit to paddle me in from of the whole school without informing my mother first. My mother did not use corporal punishment at home. She was not happy when she found out what had happened at school that day. I will never forget that day.

[NMMNG]

18. I never got punished by the teachers

I did, however, get tortured by my peers.

[Contrary1]

19. I also went to a Catholic school...

My best friend; Stella, and I were "punished" for acting up during a recital. (We were guilty):evilgrin:
It was 8th grade and we were given 200 demerits. It was a requirement to have a certain number of merits to graduate.

Fast forward 3 months, and Sister Leone Marie is in a panic. She might be stuck with me and Stella for another year. So we are assigned the task of cleaning the blinds in the convent, which miraculously; would earn us the 200 merits we would need to graduate.

We spent an hour opening and closing the blinds rapidly to dislodge the dust, and graduated on schedule.

[colinmom71]

20. I went to a private Christian school...

That transitioned into a fundamentalist evagelical style of Christianity. This was in the very early 80's, when that type mentality was starting to take root.

The first year I was there, it was a wonderful and friendly environment. But a new preacher took over and he was a strict fundy. He did everything he could to try to get rid of the extracurricular activities the school board allowed (roller skating parties at the church annex, the family fun centered evening assemblies, etc.), sent home bulletins to instruct what TV programs the kids were to be allowed to watch and such. He even spent one morning assembly lecturing on how we were to treat our Bibles. As in, you should not even let one speck of dust or even a sheet of paper cover over your bible, otherwise we were disrespecting God and we'd go to hell.

With this new guy came some new teaching staff. I wound up with a third grade teacher who had power issues (IMO). Kind of your classic sour puss spinster with a chip on her shoulder - not someone who should have been in charge of kids. One day in class, I'd been sick the night before so I didn't get a homework assignment completed and forgot in the rush of morning activities to get my mom to sign off on my homework sheet. I panicked and tried to sign it myself. Well, apparently that day was the last straw for Ms. Hag for dealing with 8 yr olds who forget homework, because she took me off to the main office (left the class unattended BTW) for punishment for failing the assignment and lying about it.

She pretty much proceded to beat me with a paddle until I begged her to stop. I had bruises for a week.

My mom asked where I got the bruises but I told her I fell. I was soon pulled out of that school when they told my mom they were going to place me ahead one grade the next year with or without her permission should I remain their pupil. That and I think the controlling atmosphere was disturbing mom as well.

[undeterred]

21. I am feeling lucky that I did not go to a parochial school.

[DS1]

22. Having to go to school was punishment enough for me.

I hated every second of it.

[calico1]

23. I went to parochial school in the 60's.

I was very quiet and one of the "good" kids but I did not escape totally. One time in third grade a girl claimed that somebody stole her dime (a lot of candy money in those days). The nun said she would leave the room for 5 minutes and when she came back the dime better be on her desk or else we'd all get it. We all looked at each other like WTF? Nobody knew what the little airhead was talking about. She was always losing stuff and claiming it was stolen. Little bitch. Anyway, the nun came back, no dime. So she made us all extend our arms with hands facing down and she smacked our knuckle with the yardstick. Then you had to turn your hand around so she could smack the other side of the knuckles.

Another time my best friend and I were told to go stand outside in the hallway for talking.

Compared to what was done to other kids I got off easy.

[jmm]

24. I had to do the "700 Club Punishment" a few times

When I went to Catholic school this was their most dreaded punishment. Basically you had to write 1+2=3-1=2+2=4-1=3+2=5 until you go to 700. They'd make you stay after school for however long was convenient for them every day until you completed it. I also had to put my desk in the hall and have had teachers yell at me.

[mdmc]

25. written punishment for talking without permission

check it out:

those who find it necessary to engage in verbal communication at inappropriate times will also find it necessary to practice better self control the the medium of written composition.

<this was what you would need to write 10, 50, 100, 500 times for talking in 5th grade at Temple Hill School.>

[merh]

26. Ears boxed

Knuckles cracked with a ruler
Hands slapped with a ruler
Toilet scrubbing tasks
Back slapped to "wake me" when not paying attention

And I was a good kid :crazy: -- imagine how the bad kids were treated by the Catholic nuns that floated down the hallways in their long habits with tons of hidden pockets. :freak:


Okay, they didn't have guns, but *I* didn't know that when I was a kid. x(
They scared the hell out of me :scared:

[LostinVA]

27. having my mouth taped with ELECTRICAL tape

Because I talked too much in class one day. I was made to stand in the front of the class like that for three hours, and the teacher also lead the class in laughing at me. So, I didn't tell my mom, but I got a rash around my mouth, and it was all raw looking. So... I told. Oi. She went to school the next day and raised the rafters! I was in Third Grade (this was the about 1971), and that sadist bitch of a teacher wasn't fired, of course... but she let me alone for the rest of the year.


This is the same "lady" who put me from the highest reading group into the remedial group... even though I read on an 8th-grade level, and my writing skills were excellent. THAT changed, too.

[fight4my3sons]

30. OMG, that is awful!

I'm so sorry that happened to you :hug:

[LostinVA]

32. Yes... I started stuttering about this time, too

[Redstone]

28. The nuns beat the crap out of us all the time with the blackboard pointer.

I think they enjoyed it.

And adult would get arrested for hitting another adult like that, but it was OK to beat kids back then, for some reason.

Redstone

[mzteris]

31. I spent about half of 1st grade

in the hall. Until she caught on to the fact that I would take my shoes off, put the toes just past the edge of the door where she could see them - and then I'd head out to the playground for a bit.

:rofl:

Then I had to write lots and lots and lots of sentences. I will not talk out of turn. I will raise my hand to answer questions. I will stay in my seat. I will not hit people with my ruler. I will not read when I should be doing work. I will not pass notes. I will not shout out answers. I will not call people names. I will not cut in line. I will not . . .

Which, in the long run, helped my handwriting which totally sucked. I also learned a neat trick that served me well throughout my entire elementary school sentence writing career - writing with two pencils together. I think I managed even three pencils at one time.

In 6th grade the taboo against paddling girls was raised and I was the 2nd girl in my school to get a paddling - woo-hoo - for flipping Eddie Todd out of his desk, I think.

[blindpig]

34. I had to kneel on pebbles in the corner.

Catholic school in the 60's, ah the memories. Those penguins certainly had a way about them. Can't even remember what I did. Got to admit though, they did make you learn.

[dajoki]

37. me too...

also a ruler broken over my knuckles.

[Taverner]

35. Fundie Xian School

Valley Christian Junior High

Well, lemme see, I was swatted, punched and slapped.

I was also told I was a sinful worldly person who by all means was NOT a Christian.

Funny, and they wonder why I was an athiest for so long....

[ucmike]

36. in my fla. public school paddling was normal

we were lined up for lunch in the cafeteria hallway and someone was clowning around. the lunch lady heard the noise but didn't see exactly who did it so she took the 3-4 kids nearest the noise to the principals office and we were all paddled. no contact with parents and no indication who actually made the commotion. i was paddled for standing near the kid who made the noise. this was probably 1975-76, i was in kindergarten. paddling was common. in that same district, our middle school principal paddled my friend for something minor and bruised his whole thigh from his ass to his knee. that was around 1981.

it would be criminal today, but was quite common then.

later, i went to a catholic highschool where the dean would punch boys for various infractions. he wouldn't hesitate to crack a kid in the mouth in front of a crowd if he felt it was warranted. once he caught a kid smoking and grabbed him by the hair with both hands and kicked him in the ass and stomach 5-6 times in front of the entire 9th and 10th grade classes.

another time he held locker inspections after all the buses had left for the day. anyone who wasn't present to open their locker for inspection had the lock cut off their lockers and the contents spilled onto the ground. the next morning we arrived to find the locker room ankle deep in books, clothes, and sports equipment. of course, it took awhile to collect our stuff and get to class, so most of us were late to homeroom. anyone who was late to homeroom got a detention. he also issued detentions to anyone who didn't have a lock on their lockers and prevented us from putting anything in a locker without a lock..after he cut the locks. i never understood why no parents ever raised a stink about the way he treated students, but they never did.

he left the school and went to a ministry in africa, leading my homeroom teacher to comment that she hoped he mistreated the wrong africans and they ate him.

[CornField]

38. Public school student & absolutely nothing

I've no doubt that there were times I had to sit out during recess or was told to move in the cafeteria or something like that... but I don't remember a single time.

Reading the responses here brings a whole new meaning to that bumper sticker: Dear God, please save me from your followers.

[Zenlitened]

39. Yeah, really. Some pretty warped stuff.

The most horrible punishment we had in my public elementary school was "being sent to the wall."

Which meant that, if you were being a brat, you didn't get to play with the other kids at recess but had to cool your heels standing at a wall overlooking the playground while everyone else was having fun.

A big time-out, essentially.

Yet somehow -- despite the absence of the violent kind of "discipline" the bible-thumpers insist is so necessary -- our school was considered one of the best in the state by just about any academic measure.

Go figure. :eyes:

[Guy Fawkes]

40. I'm a good student...

Only been arrested once, and it was the fault of a teacher. (our public schools each have a police officer)
Other then that... I never did anything bad.

[Crankie Avalon]

41. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets.

When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. ...