Unusual punishments in school

Ghost Estate

One day in 6th class of primary school this fella was forced to drink a carton of sour milk. He had left it in the sun at break time and the teacher didn't like the idea of him just wasting it so she made him drink it despite it being well sour. It must have taken him about 2 hours to finish it but he did

When i was really young i was forced to let some fella bite me that i was after having a fight with.

there must have been others but i cant think of em right now. after primary school they were much more into following the policy, meetings with the board of management and social workers and that kind of sh1te rather than giving an unusual punishment. anyone got any interesting tales to tell? i'm sure this was more common in the good old days than when i was going to school

Snakeblood

Ghost Estate wrote: »

One day in 6th class of primary school this fella was forced to drink a carton of sour milk. He had left it in the sun at break time and the teacher didn't like the idea of him just wasting it so she made him drink it despite it being well sour. It must have taken him about 2 hours to finish it but he did

When i was really young i was forced to let some fella bite me that i was after having a fight with.

there must have been others but i cant think of em right now. after primary school they were much more into following the policy, meetings with the board of management and social workers and that kind of sh1te rather than giving an unusual punishment. anyone got any interesting tales to tell? i'm sure this was more common in the good old days than when i was going to school

The good oul' days where kids were encouraged to bite other kids. :cool:

Nodin

I heard this, and thus have no idea whether its true or not - it would relate to about 25 years ago - A young one being forced to clean the toilets in a secondary school (run by nuns).

Duggy747

My history teacher made a classmate get on his knees and apologise for jig-acting.

Someone took a poo on the school floor and the supposed culprit was made clean it up.

Ghost Estate wrote: »

When i was really young i was forced to let some fella bite me that i was after having a fight with.

Where was he told to bite you?

Nodin

Snakeblood wrote: »

The good oul' days where kids were encouraged to bite other kids. :cool:

Twas often the only lunch available. All the long day, you'd look forward to being able to bite some fellah. And if father hadn't earned enough money dancing for the Nuns, it would be your dinner too.

PirateShampoo

Being brought up in Wales, and going to a school that wasnt run by sadist religious nuts the worse punishment we would get was either Hands on heads, Arms in the Air or Lines.

mikemac

I spent many lunchtimes with a sweeping brush and told to sweep the foyer.

And when I got a barman job the school janitor was having a pint and saw me cleaning the bar and said he trained me well at cleaning, ****er :mad:

alwaysadub

In primary-used to get hung out the 2nd floor window by your ankles, get your head stuck under the cold tap, get the duster flung at you if you weren't paying attention. And that was all by the same teacher!

_feedback_

Ghost Estate wrote: »

One day in 6th class of primary school this fella was forced to drink a carton of sour milk. He had left it in the sun at break time and the teacher didn't like the idea of him just wasting it so she made him drink it despite it being well sour. It must have taken him about 2 hours to finish it but he did

When i was really young i was forced to let some fella bite me that i was after having a fight with.

there must have been others but i cant think of em right now. after primary school they were much more into following the policy, meetings with the board of management and social workers and that kind of sh1te rather than giving an unusual punishment. anyone got any interesting tales to tell? i'm sure this was more common in the good old days than when i was going to school

You'd need to be an awful fúcker to make a kid drink a load of sour milk!

Nothing too odd for me. Just the usual "describe the inside of a golfball" essay, or play dodge the blackboard duster.

Local-womanizer

Being beat on your left hand for writing with it. No lefties in my school!

Nodin

Its dawned on me that "unusual" is very age related

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Being brought up in Wales, and going to a school that wasnt run by sadist religious nuts the worse punishment we would get was either Hands on heads, Arms in the Air or Lines.

A common one was the desks with seats that raised - you'd be made stand with the seat down, so that your legs could not straighten. "stress position" essentially. That became more popular after beating the shit out of people was banned.

bullpost

Being brought up in Wales was punishment enough I'd say

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Being brought up in Wales, and going to a school that wasnt run by sadist religious nuts the worse punishment we would get was either Hands on heads, Arms in the Air or Lines.

byhookorbycrook

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Being beat on your left hand for writing with it. No lefties in my school!

Had my hand tied behind my back aged 4 and a half and slapped across the face repeatedly for trying to write with left hand.

Clothes peg (metal) on lips if you talked in junior infants.

Being made to hold a piece of chalk against the blackboard with my nose.

Put on knees before the class altar for aking if I could go to the bathroom outside of "fixed toilet trip time."

Yard-stick (pre metric age)across the legs-it was used sideways for extra soreness. God bless the sisters of "Mercy."

Funnily enough, I went on to be a primary teacher, mainly because of these people, I figured I'd have to be able to do better

Gunsfortoys

We had a P.E teacher in school that hated if you forgot your kit.

There was an overweight kid in our class that "forgot" his P.E stuff and was made wear a football bib(nothing underneath) and a tight pair of shorts to play dodgeball. Poor guy was never the same. What a wanker!

pickarooney

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Being brought up in Wales, and going to a school that wasnt run by sadist religious nuts the worse punishment we would get was either Hands on heads, Arms in the Air or Lines.

Being force-fed cocaine would have been fairly unusual punishment when I was going to school.

oppenheimer1

One of the punishments in our school was to write out pages of the phonebook, with your work to be torn up in front of you when it was handed up. I thought it was a bit mean.

Duggy747

Nodin wrote: »

Twas often the only lunch available. All the long day, you'd look forward to being able to bite some fellah. And if father hadn't earned enough money dancing for the Nuns, it would be your dinner too.

School was hard enough in those days, we didn't have such luxuries like water. Ma & Pa would have Hydrogen in one hand, Oxygen in the other and then slam them together to create water.

Another odd punishment was to write meaningless 5 page essays about the inside of a football only for the teacher to throw it in the bin without even looking at it.

who the fug

Ones I have seen

Carry one of the old cast iron desks up three flights of stairs to get signature underneath the one the student had carved on the desk, then take the desk back to the class


Write a letter to ones parents explaining why one was being suspended, letters were collected, students left to stew for 48 hours, before the Priests say Lads we were only taking the piss. (those what phoned home failed to see the funny side)


Smoking £10.00 fine or or hour picking up litter at 0600

Degag

I had to go and stand in the bathroom for an hour once in primary school!

Venom

Being made to stand on a chair while the teacher grabbed you buy the lock on your head and then kicked the chair away.

Being hit in the head by a basketball, duster or chalk for not paying attention.

The Brothers could be right bastards all right but the worst level of abuse was always from the normal teachers who I saw beat kids like a Mike Tyson boxing match.

jackiebaron

feelingstressed wrote: »

I spent many lunchtimes with a sweeping brush and told to sweep the foyer.

And when I got a barman job the school janitor was having a pint and saw me cleaning the bar and said he trained me well at cleaning, ****er :mad:

You should have said to him "Yeah and this job has trained me well at barring people so put the fcuking pint down, mop-boy, and hit the pavement!" :pac:

tommy21

For talking a teacher made me kneel facing the wall at the top of the classroom for the duration of a lesson. Every now and again he would throw blue-tack at me. The class would laugh. This was 6th class. :eek: FML.

senordingdong

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Clothes peg (metal) on lips if you talked in junior infants.

That's a really good one.

I must remember it.

Mirza

Jezzz...

And I thought standing in the corner for a while was bad..

When I was in primary school, not that long ago, the worst was the psychological terror. The teacher (a great one I should add) would give one person a piece of paper and a pen.

That person then had to write down the names of anyone who talked while the teacher dealt with the other classes. One biatch always got to do it and anyone she didn't like....well you get the idea! I missed many lunch breaks in the yard because of her, and I didn't even talk. Well, not all the time anyway

RMD

I was told to sit in the corner of the room on the floor and continue my work there for breaking a guys pen.

Not an entirely unusual punishment, thing was I was in 6th year :pac:

gurramok

Had a primary schoolteacher who had her son also in our class, she used to sew his pockets up so to stop him putting his hands in there. The bloke was lets say mightily embarassed for all his years there.

byhookorbycrook

senordingdong wrote: »

That's a really good one.

I must remember it.

Needless to say, it gave me lips like Cowen :D

El Guapo!

When I was about 5 or 6 I had a bad stammer and I couldn't get a sentence out when I was asking the teacher something so she made me stand up in front of the class and say it until I could say it properly. It took forever because I was crying so much and couldn't speak.

What a cúnt!

Johnboy1951

Unusual ...... or maybe sick ...... in primary school I saw a kid in my class who wore a tie other than the 'school tie' and the "Christian" Brother tied it about his ankles and then hung him upside down on a coat hook.

The same teach used a cane regularly and broke many on our hands ...... I reckon he was lucky to die before any of us got our hands on him .... sick ****!

Odysseus

I don't think kids get the free milk that we got, it was in a glass bottle 1/3 of a pint. Anyway I told my teacher mine was sour and I was made drink it. Sour milk is good for you was what I was told. Nasty cnut.

Leathers, yardsticks, etc, onr guy had a round rail from a cot or the back of a chair, it had a nail knocked through it and bend around it. From what I remember I he never actually hit you with the nail part; it was more for psychological purposes. Leathers with coins sewn into them to think that was the norm. Corporal punishment was banned just as I left primary and moved into secondary, however, I found it got more physical once I left primary, I was hit once in primary with by a teacher using his hands; this became more common one I hit secondary school.

Some of the stuff was terrible and that is without the sexual stuff. I grew up in an area where there was a well known pedo priest operating. All the kids knew and it was there same with the Brothers we all Brother X like to feel your "mickey", the worest thing was it wasn't only Brother X, there was a Y and a Z too. It's mad to look back on it and think that most kids in the area knew, but couldn't say anything about it. Though that's what the fcukers needed to operate.

bigneacy

I got a fair few pieces of chalk and dusters thrown at me for not paying attention... we always got the old reliable - made stand with the seat down, so that your legs could not straighten... Got the essays about the inside of golf balls, writing out the phonebook, lines etc.

Strange to think this was about 15 years ago... It'd be front page news if it happened today! Stupid PC society. Did us no harm.

(I'm talking after corporal punishment.... that was just sick and wrong... screwed a lot of people up in the head)

Odysseus

Dean09 wrote: »

When I was about 5 or 6 I had a bad stammer and I couldn't get a sentence out when I was asking the teacher something so she made me stand up in front of the class and say it until I could say it properly. It took forever because I was crying so much and couldn't speak.

What a cúnt!

Some of the psychological stuff was worse, I remember reading in the class and I had difficulties with the tense of the word read, I was confused as to whether it was present or past. I told the teacher I didn't know what the word was, thinking it was the easiest way out. We had a Special Ed class, which was called the dunce class; I was sent up to that class to ask the teacher to allow me to ask the class what the word was.

I remember the teacher must have taken pity on me as I told him I was sent up because another boy didn't know the word, I was that embarrassed.

**Timbuk2**

When I was younger, I got caught stealing a piece of the principal's cake. She then called an assembly, produced a huge chocolate cake and forced me to eat it in front of everyone. After much heaving and stuffing large bundles of cake into my mouth, I had finished it. She was so annoyed with me she even broke the glass platter over my head, but I didn't care because everyone was cheering... and I got free cake.

El Guapo!

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

When I was younger, I got caught stealing a piece of the principal's cake. She then called an assembly, produced a huge chocolate cake and forced me to eat it in front of everyone. After much heaving and stuffing large bundles of cake into my mouth, I had finished it. She was so annoyed with me she even broke the glass platter over my head, but I didn't care because everyone was cheering... and I got free cake.

BRUCE BRUCE BRUCE!!!!

gbee

My schooling ended in 1972:

Physical punishment was the order of the day.

bigneacy

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

When I was younger, I got caught stealing a piece of the principal's cake. She then called an assembly, produced a huge chocolate cake and forced me to eat it in front of everyone. After much heaving and stuffing large bundles of cake into my mouth, I had finished it. She was so annoyed with me she even broke the glass platter over my head, but I didn't care because everyone was cheering... and I got free cake.

Was sitting there scratching my head thinking.... I remember that... I must have blocked the memory or something... I could see you on the school stage, the big chocolate cake in front of you.... Thinking "I Must have been in school with timbuk2...."
:rolleyes:

Then I realised where I remembered it from. Smartarse...

jimthemental

Secondary school I was hurling inside with a few others. Teacher who saw us didn't appreciate our sports prowess and and locked the three of us into a room where we were basically on display to the rest of the school who the wanker brought round to see us. Bear in mind this was probably the first or second week of first year. I was seriously shy and lacked self esteem for years after that one since it was my introduction to everyone there.

john.reid86

I remember some of the stupid essays like the life of a cornflake and to write an essay on the inside of a golfball and things like that. Also the getting chalk and duster thrown at you was in there a few times.

I think the insane thing was what I got away with. I threw a chair at some1 one day over slagging me. and the teacher came in while the chair was in mid flight. He called me outside to the corridor and told me he wasnt going to tell the principal but that I should. I didn't bother because it was pointless. The school had so many ridiculous rules. and what would be acomplished by me telling on a student that was slagging me. Everyone got that kinda crap in school. It was part of it like.

Looking back now at some of the things that went on in school I can tell ya If I was there today and that was happening to me it would be a whole different story. Granted I'd be incredibly worried that I was back in secondary school at 23 :P

Jumpy

Bloody hell.

Please tell me most of this thread is people taking the piss.

john.reid86

I know I'm not taking the piss in my comment. School was an experience for everyone. Majority of people I still talk to who I went to school with are in careers and have decent jobs. It's crazy to look back at all the crap you did and think how on earth was that allowed.

AntiRip

Woodwork teacher made me and a pal kneel for a DOUBLE class with pencils under our knees! He kept checking to see if the pencils were under our knees that a$$hole of a c**T:D

Another student was suspended after a teacher flung a duster at him and missed but the student flung it back but didn't!:D

Seen the principal kick the arse of another guy one day. Things were a lot tougher back in 1990. We were afraid of the teachers. From what I gather now in the very same school where a pal is a teacher, the teachers are afraid of the students.

OutlawPete

Had this one teacher that had a black bowler type top hat and when you were disruptive, he used to put a rabbit in the hat on his lap and make you pet it until you calmed down.

I never did see the rabbit though, could just feel it and it had no hair or ears.

Strange teacher.

phill106

I can't think of anything like your experiences happening to me!

john.reid86

AntiRip wrote: »

Woodwork teacher made me and a pal kneel for a DOUBLE class with pencils under our knees! He kept checking to see if the pencils were under our knees that a$$hole of a c**T:D

Another student was suspended after a teacher flung a duster at him and missed but the student flung it back but didn't!:D

Seen the principal kick the arse of another guy one day. Things were a lot tougher back in 1990. We were afraid of the teachers. From what I gather now in the very same school where a pal is a teacher, the teachers are afraid of the students.

This has actually made me laugh quite a bit. Sorry mate but when you look back at how insane things were you can't do much but laugh.

And the teachers should be afraid of kids these days. A few years back in Temple bar I saw a group of about 8 or 9 kids. couldnt have been much older then 10/11 like. They kicked the sh!t out of 2 kids and split one of there heads open and ran off. all for fun like. It was crazy.

I know I'm only young myself at 23 like but the generation now in school is insane. It's horrible to think what is going to happen people when they go to get jobs or whatever and when asked what experience you have and they reply "eh give me the job... or else" I mean Kids have no respect at all. No matter what way you treat them. whether it be nice or not they dont care.

Thornography

Banned from playing on the grass, That was the most annoying

SanoVitae

elviscostello wrote: »

Nothing too odd for me. Just the usual "describe the inside of a golfball" essay, or play dodge the blackboard duster.

I got "Life Inside A Volleyball" myself.

DubMam

Does anyone remember those horrible corned beef sandwiches with the white butter on brown bread (supplied by the school) , gross! Well one day I was about 7 teacher emptied the bin and found right at the bottom a sandwich with one bite gone out of it. I was wrongly accused of throwing it out and made to eat it, soaked in sour milk and pencil parings..:( will never forget it!

Beruthiel

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Being beat on your left hand for writing with it. No lefties in my school!

Yup. I got beaten in 3rd class for using a sewing needle with my left hand.
The lovely Sister Aquinas used a meter long piece of wood. Wizened old biddy.

Pupito

I was in 2nd or 3rd class in the run-up to Christmas, made the mistake of agreeing with a classmate that we didn't think Santa existed. My best friend told the teacher on us, she told the headmaster, we were banned from playing football at break-time for six months.

ActingDanClark

in secondary school, a fellow student delayed getting out of his desk to get a laugh from the rest of us when the next teacher arrived in. bad move..the teacher who was 6'2" or so and weighed about 17 stone(guesstimation) pulled him out of the desk by his sidelock and when he fell on the floor picked him up, struck him in the face and proceeded to suspend him from a coat hanger whereby his feet werent in contact with the floor.
coat hanger gave way,gashing the back of his head...
ah school daze..the happiest of your life:D

gbee

Duggy747 wrote: »

Another odd punishment was to write meaningless 5 page essays only for the teacher to throw it in the bin without even looking at it.

Yup, many's the blank page what went that way ~ but one day, "Right Mr. Gbee, we'll see what you wrote this week!"

Busted.