Strip so we can give you a back rub!

Overheal

OK......

im speaking with my friend here whos 22 and im 20. She went to secondary school in a Dublin Convent (I went into a school in Clare; Flannans)

Anyway she was talking about corporal punishment when she was younger (6) and then the conversation gets onto to secondary school...

now tell me, sirs and madams, wtf is the deal with having to strip half naked in school to be checked for schlerosis/curvature of the spine; and uniform underwear checks; and perversely short shorts*?

How were these things gotten away with? And they call it horrendous when the priests got outted a couple years ago. fcukers.

*actually the short shorts were a turn on according to description

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

nuns are all lesbians?

Latchy

As sombody who went to a de la sale school i know what you meen OP , twas the times we lived in then ,when nobody questioned anything to do with authority ,priests were a kind of law unto themselfs and the climate was ripe for abuse of all kinds . Short pants were the norm amoung us schoolboys .:)

Fajitas!

Semi-Relevant-but-Interesting-all-the-same-Link

delta_bravo

Overheal wrote: »

OK......

im speaking with my friend here whos 22 and im 20. She went to secondary school in a Dublin Convent (I went into a school in Clare; Flannans)

Anyway she was talking about corporal punishment when she was younger (6) and then the conversation gets onto to secondary school...

now tell me, sirs and madams, wtf is the deal with having to strip half naked in school to be checked for schlerosis/curvature of the spine;

Why are you associating corporal punishment with scoliosis ( I presume you meant this and not sclerosis). Im not a doctor but surely to examine a persons spine they would be expected remove their jumper and shirt? Your post is incredibly incoherent

Actually I think this topic is before my time.

Thephantomsmask

Overheal wrote:

Anyway she was talking about corporal punishment when she was younger (6)

Erm, if your friend is 22, how could she have experienced corporal punishment? That was outlawed a long time ago. And uniform underwear checks? WTF? Did the nuns check girls underwear was regulation or am l not getting misinterpreting? I went to a convent school though it was nearly all lay teachers, we had the scoliosis check but a doctor came to the school to do it.

eroo

W..ho c..a...r..e..s?

Zaph

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

Erm, if your friend is 22, how could she have experienced corporal punishment?

1980 to be precise

Terry

zaph wrote: »

1980 to be precise

Yep.
Got that cane in junior infants.
It was banned by the time I got to senior infants.

I'm 32.
OP, your friend did not recieve corporal punishment.

GhostInTheRuins

Fajitas! wrote: »

Semi-Relevant-but-Interesting-all-the-same-Link

Very disappointing

Terry

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Very disappointing

Noticed that too.
The url is very misleading.

Thephantomsmask

zaph wrote: »

1980 to be precise

Thanks, l didn't know the date but l knew it was before my time in school and I'm 24 so not much older than the OP's friend.

connundrum

I went to primary school in Johannesburg and there was mild corporal punishment i.e. just a cane.

I thought it was really good. Don't fcuk up and you won't gerrit. Gerrit?

As for the stripping. WTF?

monkeyfudge

No one ever checked my spine... I guess I wasn't cute enough.


The priests would hit us quite a bit though... and this is in the 90s.

thefinalstage

Without short skirt we woulod not have much of todays modern japanese cinema!

Overheal

yeah i dont know what your definition of corporal punishment is here but getting physically threatened? Canings? Wrist slaps? Thats all corporal in my book.

Yea as for the stripping I dont get that either - it was a doctor that came in and did the checking. As for checking the uniform underwear that was just a bit extreme to me.

I have to wonder about this country sometimes ... cos then I heard about these Laundries/Laundramats where you sent your pregnant unwed children up until the last one was 2000..... I mean my sweet fcuk 0_0 thats messed up.

Anyway thats not the point of the thread - I just wanted to know how normal her treatment was. This would have been around 98-2000 (the spine testing and the stripping and pantie checks - not the corp)

of course I'd also love to hear I've just been hoodwinked into beleiving something silly in great American fasion.... "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your National Igloo!"

thefinalstage

They did that stuff in 2000? Nasty.

wil

I assume the fact that you replied, conversation has finished and she exited.
Afraid to say I think you missed your cue. (the fact that you got on here during your tete a tete, obvious mistake.)
Shes been watching Magdalene Sisters or similar recently and now stringing you along.
There's been so few nuns in schools for the last 20 years, and no corporal punishment for longer, and the last person sent and still in one of these institutions died a few years back, so porkies is what you were getting and what you possibly were being asked for.
God Im up too early, damn neighbours alarm.:(

Glossary
porkies- pork pies - lies
pork - verb, not pig products

DublinWriter

zaph wrote: »

1980 to be precise

1982 to be even more precise.

Reku

thelastangryman wrote: »

They did that stuff in 2000? Nasty.

No, they didn't, Overheal's just been a little confused....:rolleyes:

FlutterinBantam

latchyco wrote: »

As sombody who went to a de la sale school i know what you meen OP , twas the times we lived in then ,when nobody questioned anything to do with authority ,priests were a kind of law unto themselfs and the climate was ripe for abuse of all kinds . Short pants were the norm amoung us schoolboys .:)

:eek: Makes mental note not to send and kids to De La Salle!!

Terry

DublinWriter wrote: »

1982 to be even more precise.

Thought it was 1980 myself, but google tells me this:

This regulation was circulated by John Boland, Minister for Education, Republic of Ireland to all schools on January 26, 1982, and took effect almost immediately, on February 1, 1982.

1. Teachers should have a lively regard for the improvement and general welfare of their pupils, treat them with kindness combined with firmness and should aim at governing them through their affections and reason and not by harshness and severity. Ridicule, sarcasm or remarks likely to undermine a pupil's self-confidence should not be used in any circumstances.
2. The use of corporal punishment is forbidden.
3. Any teacher who contravenes sections (1) or (2) of this rule will be regarded as guilty of conduct unbefitting a teacher and will be subject to severe disciplinary action.

Still doesn't explain how my first class teacher (sept '82 - June '83) used to punch me full force in the arm and got away with it, until my national boxing champion cousins had a word with him.

Dinxminx

For my scoliosis check all I had to do was take off my jumper and lift up the back of my shirt. nobody asked me to take it off...

Reku

Part 1 of that would've had half my teachers sacked as they all tended to find someone in the class to ridicule. Guess it's just as well no-one in the class knew....

Terry

farohar wrote: »

Part 1 of that would've had half my teachers sacked as they all tended to find someone in the class to ridicule. Guess it's just as well no-one in the class knew....

Indeed.
The same teacher wouldn't allow my neighbour go to the toilet one day.
The guy had kidney problems and the ****ing toilets were in the same room.

My neighbour pissed himself and the teacher then made him stand up in front of the whole class in an attempt to make us laugh at him.
Even though we were all 6/7 years old, nobody laughed.

That same teacher is now the principal.

Reku

FFS! *shakes head in disgust*
I know our primary school principal used to grab lads by the shoulders and shake them quite vigorously but I think that's the worst any of our primary/secondary school teachers did, afterall if they slagged us we just slagged them back.

Latchy

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

:eek: Makes mental note not to send and kids to De La Salle!!

Was a lot worse in the 40s 50s when i wasn't around i believe , it might be a cool place now these days , i dont know lol

Overheal

Terry wrote: »

Indeed.
The same teacher wouldn't allow my neighbour go to the toilet one day.
The guy had kidney problems and the ****ing toilets were in the same room.

My neighbour pissed himself and the teacher then made him stand up in front of the whole class in an attempt to make us laugh at him.
Even though we were all 6/7 years old, nobody laughed.

That same teacher is now the principal.

see I knew I wasnt crazy. Just because a paper law is made you think everyone is going to bow down to it all at once?

Actually now that you mention it there was a bit of an episode in my school - this would have been in 03' where a teacher would grab whatever was in front of him (usually a board cleaner or somebody's pencil case) and fcuk it right into your face if you weren't paying attention to the lecture.

Terry how is that guy the principal? Go down there and moderate his ass.

Terry

He was also my fourth class teacher.
He didn't lay a hand on me then, but a few of the lads did get the odd punch.

The third class teacher was just as bad.
He would drag people out of their seats by their ear.

The fifth/ sixth class guy was just weird though.
He would come up, sit beside you and start rubbing your ear.
Everyone would push him away, except for my friend Dave*. He just thought it was funny.


*There was five Daves in the class. I'm not saying which one was fond of the ear fondling.