I once saw, on TV, a Brooklyn comedian ask his audience
“any of you went to a Catholic school?”
a few hands went up…
"You remember the names of the nuns?
Lefty?
Knuckles?"
they did.
IIRC, the sister in the grade-school I was in, broke a boy’s arm, when she flipped his desk on him, for backtalk.
It was a Catholic school.
She … hated children?
Angry, endless anger, in her…
damned odd way of choosing someone for being a teacher…
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Child of the '60s here.
It’s real; I lived it. Grade school, it was nuns. Beaten up by priests (as well as most of the other teachers) in high school.During the 80s there was a big push to not abuse children, but before that, it was very common.
It is real. My mother went to an all girls catholic school. She said the wrong answers as well as bad behavior warranted being whacked with a ruler. Things were even worse if you are sinister.
Dude, the nuns at my dad’s elementary school beat him and traumatized him so much that he has PTSD.
Its pure evil to abuse a child. No surprise that agents of the church took no issue with such evil behaviour.
My mother told me a story about how once my uncle was in school and the teacher told him to go out and cut a switch, which is just a thin stick good for whipping with. He cried, went out and got one, came back, and it turned out it was for someone else. This would have been the 60s or 70s maybe. My mom also mentioned that the typing (typewriter) teacher would smack fingers with a ruler when mistakes were made. This was a public school.
So yea, definitely a real thing that happened.
I don’t know about now, but when my parents were in school it was definitely very common. There is still no law against corporal punishment in private schools in the US, and only 33 out of 50 states have laws against it in their public schools.
I went to various Christian schools and had one teacher bend me over her knee and paddle me. But I was already taller/bigger than her. So ironic that I ended up liking short women and spanking. Like, what are the odds!?
Very high given you were spanked by short women as a kid
Oh yeah, a lot of old Catholics are terrified of nuns for that reason. It was always fun to shock them by saying how my school’s nun was nice. The nuns especially targeted the sin of left handedness
“Left hand is only for wanking” - Ridicule 19:5
My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.
When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.
So yeah, it happens.
I was changed from left- to right-handed by the Calgary school board in 1979 or so.
In secondary school my chem teacher would definitely throw chalk if you weren’t paying attention. It’s better than chalk brushes.
Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.
Me friend recently told me she was caned (rapped with a ruler to be more specific) on the back of her hand for writing on the chalkboard with her left hand.
1989 Anglican Sunday school in rural Canada. They never went back, and apparently the place was shutdown not too much later.
plus all that buggery. Nuns absolutely creeped me out, I have never met one that wasn’t mean and miserable.
Wait do the nuns bugger? Thought that was only the preists.
I did. She “used to be a Lesbian”, but wasn’t able according to her.
Anyhow, she was very cheery and happy living there apparently.
In El Salvador, the nuns were way more hardcore than just using a ruler.
Once one made my dad kneel on raw rice while holding up books for half an hour.
My mom has to do something similar too but with salt outside in the sun, but for a bit less time.
Reading all the comments here and then having to deal again with religious assholes who keep claiming that God gis good, god is kind, my imaginary god is everything that I am not
Fuck your imaginary stone age religion. Religion is a mental illness
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