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Re: Ciel
I think it has reverted somehow Ciel.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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Spending a day with a boy's ups and downs, explorations and discoveries.
Teachers need to have a sense of humor more than a sense of punishment.
posted by
Ciel
on July 10, 2020 at 1:05 PM
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Re: Kabu
Quite Kabu. Would not think you would like them as you grew older I suppose.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 11:08 AM
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Re: Pat
And more was to follow Pat, Names were entered in a black book, I Would love to read it .
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 11:07 AM
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Cheers A.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 11:05 AM
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Re: Bill
A bit extreme Bill . Had he not heard of a better way?
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posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 11:03 AM
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Re: Taps
Sometimes a child was too ashamed to mention ill treatment. I had my knuckles cut till they bled with a ruler. I never told anyone and it was not my fault. Ribcage had his pride, I know you miss him.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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Re: Sea_Gypsy
I suppose entertainment was rather crude. It was the way of things. Going back farther my father said his father threatened a teacher with a good hiding if he caned his sons . As he had done. It never happened again.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 10:59 AM
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Re: shamasehar
Yes . I remember the Head mistress thumping a small gypsy boy on his back.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 10:53 AM
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Re: Corbin
Perhaps so Corbin but a swishy cane would raise a nice mark.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 10:49 AM
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Re: FS
Yes FS and the constant worry of the odd dive bomber.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 10:46 AM
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Re: sassyass
I guess not, Learning to be men maybe.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 10, 2020 at 10:45 AM
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Childhood antics are so underrated.
School wouldn't be school without the naughty boys smoking and carrying on.
posted by
Sherri_G
on July 10, 2020 at 10:05 AM
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Those were the school days back in the day. I'm glad I came along later.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 10, 2020 at 5:32 AM
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those were the days...the Principle had a paddle that had large holes in it so it would swing faster to one's butt!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 10, 2020 at 4:18 AM
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The Old School... when there was no internet and TV. Corporal punishment is a thing of the past along with marbles, slingshot and many other things....
posted by
shamasehar
on July 9, 2020 at 10:39 PM
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Conkers and carbide - I don’t know those terms but your poem is a great description of boys’ back when. How horrible to hit children in school! No one got hit when I was in school, ever! And it was a Catholic school. So sorry for you.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on July 9, 2020 at 8:49 PM
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Ribcage got thrashed in school several times. I didn't know it then as he didn't tell us until he was well into adulthood.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 9, 2020 at 8:09 PM
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When I was a boy, our family doctor told my mother to let me put soil in my mouth.
posted by
BC-A
on July 9, 2020 at 5:25 PM
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posted by
Annicita
on July 9, 2020 at 3:46 PM
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Well, if this post didn't remind me of Charles Dickens, nothing would...
I can just see the boys lined up - 4th graders, no doubt. That's the age I remember boys being the most obnoxious. And that trick with the rubber band and flies: oh, gross!
posted by
Pat_B
on July 9, 2020 at 1:26 PM
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LOL...you sound very much like the boys in the little country school that i attended in the 50's before I went to boarding school.
posted by
Kabu
on July 9, 2020 at 12:16 PM
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