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Re: C-C-T
Good for your uncle and grandfather! More parents should have done that for their children! Makes me happy to hear that!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 15, 2016 at 8:02 PM
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Re: Re: EJ Norris
I bet. :)
posted by
EJ_Norris
on February 13, 2016 at 10:55 AM
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Re: Naut
Seems it comes back as one goes forward into oblivion Naut. 
posted by
C_C_T
on February 13, 2016 at 8:00 AM
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Re:RPresta
Well Presta once my Uncle had the cane and my grandfather visited the school and told the teacher if he dared do that again he would give him a thrashing. My Father said the teacher never laid a finger on him when he moved to that class. A bit extreme but those times were mighty rough.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 13, 2016 at 7:57 AM
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Re:Krisles
Throwing conkers K. I can see it bouncing on the road and then it shot straight through
a window of a rather select family. We ran like the clappers but one boy chickened out and was caught by the long legged adult. The reason we were put in the black book was as far as I remember was absolutely stupid, almost like a religious black mark on our souls forever.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 13, 2016 at 7:52 AM
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Re: EJ Norris
It was a incentive to conform and treat the teachers with respect. I could cheerfully have murdered one or two of them.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 13, 2016 at 7:43 AM
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CCT
As always - enjoyable and interesting! You have a great talent in letting history frame these vignettes of a child's life...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 12, 2016 at 9:17 PM
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I didn't know that caning really happened in the 20th or 21st century! How awful, at any time!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 12, 2016 at 9:02 PM
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I never know if I'm going to enjoy your poems or the comments and your responses the most! I'm enjoying these trips down memory lane. Well, why did you break the window?! I certainly don't advocate caning, but I'm for a little shaming as we've lost all semblence of it and Society is less for it in my opinion. Parents have to raise children to recognize the difference between being culpable and being crushed when caught doing wrong - unless they are going to raise perfect children!
posted by
Krisles
on February 12, 2016 at 6:03 PM
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Quite vivid :) I liked this. Some children at my school certainly might have benefited from the cane.
posted by
EJ_Norris
on February 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM
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Re: Taps
How funny Taps. I think girls used to do that to me. They should have been at your school.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 12, 2016 at 11:24 AM
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Re: Oh, this was amazing. How grownup children are in hard times,
Well of course Pat it was all reality. Today a lot of life is fictional, as you know gentle natured folk usually get bullied.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 12, 2016 at 11:21 AM
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Re: FS
True we were all brought up hard, but 99% managed to do quite well and never shirked work.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 12, 2016 at 11:15 AM
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Re: Katray
Well Kat this teacher always picked on me she was my second most hated person.
I now have theory, but she is long gone. Some children seem to attract adults and perhaps the idea is so repulsive to them that have to prove something to themselves. I guess you will understand what I mean. Yes the human brain will stand so much.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 12, 2016 at 11:14 AM
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I think it is a good thing teachers no longer have free reign to punish
children; in public schools here they don't; too much abuse happened! 
This poem kind of reminds me of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall - the message, I mean - a wish for escape from subtle but real militaristic environs. Very thought provoking and well written! 
posted by
Katray2
on February 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM
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It is interesting how things work out in life.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 12, 2016 at 10:03 AM
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Oh, this was amazing. How grownup children are in hard times,
and yet the actual adults keep treating them like unknowing clay to be shaped as they see things, no matter that the little ones have lived the same troubles...
posted by
Pat_B
on February 12, 2016 at 6:14 AM
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"Little bundles of brown and gray," I love it. I love the whole thing. Children are such fun, at least i think so. My Sis once got caught in school class making ugly faces at a girl she didn't like. The teacher took her to the principal and made her make the same faces at the principal. She did two and then burst into tears saying, "I forget the rest of them." I don't think she ever made faces again. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on February 11, 2016 at 12:12 PM
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