School punishment methods

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One of the methods of punishment they used to hand down in my old school was essays,on topics like "i should have respect for others",odd teacher with a sense of humour would force classmate to write about "life of a toilet seat",
some teachers would actually read the pages,so no one didn't seem to attempt to write swear words in the essay...

Buceph

Use to get pointless essays to write for teachers the odd occasion. My parents would get pissed at that and say write an essay on the subject you were being punished, so history essay for history, french for french, etc.. Then they'd write me a note saying they thought the teachers punishment was pointless. And if they were going to punish me at least make it some way educational.

Have to say, ten years later I agree with them.

thehairyelbow

Used to get daft essays too. The inside of a tennis ball was one I remember well.

prinz

Inside of a tennis ball I have come across. Also life of a cornflake that type of thing. One teacher in particular was known for it.

Celly Smunt

i was told to count all the bricks on the classroom wall

azezil

I had to write one on grass. A-hole didn't even read it. I put real effort into that
After that I'd write a paragraph or two here and there and fill up the rest with a bunch of eeee's, hell I even drew a red truck on one of them, never looked at it :rolleyes:

mikemac

Sweeping floors and around the foyer.
Many lunchtimes wandering around sweeping

Got a barman job in the local hotel afterwards and the caretaker saw me sweeping.
Made a right laugh out me in front of his drinking friends and said he trained me and gave me practice. Made look a right **** :mad:

Should have spit in his pint!

Cianos

And here I was thinking my teacher was witty and original :rolleyes:

Unless we've all gone to the same school!

chin_grin

Write out page x of the German dictionary x times. (X being any random number page or random number of times that the teacher saw fit. Wahay! Algebra!).

Corruptedmorals

Notes in the journal was about as tough as it got..in primary they had to signed by your parents, in secondary they could add up to detention or going on report and having your behaviour assessed by the teacher of every class for a week. Vividly remember the shame of a certain note in the journal when I was 10 'Catherine wrote Daniel X is a dickhead with stolen chalk in the school yard' and me trying to hide the word dickhead with my hand for my dad to sign it..didn't work.:mad: Not a bad method at all really, notes.

KeithM89_old

I had an old history teacher whod make you write out a page from a book backwards. Then again without any vowels. Cruel bastard!

thehairyelbow

I remember walking through the schoolyard with a younger brother of a classmate of mine. He told me he had gotten a full chapter of a book to write out as a punishment. For the craic I told him not to do it as it would infringe on copyright law. Little sh1t did as I said, and told hs teacher it was me who gave him the "legal advice". Was writing for a month.

IK09

Used to be a primary teacher, used to make them write out the word "repetition" and its definition as many times as the crime was worth. If they continued being little pricks I used to do the same with the word "irony".

A little twisted I know but thats why im not a teacher anymore :pac:

haydar

My friend had to stand on one leg in a small circle while holding two half drums of wood glue outstretched. The teacher said if he dropped them down at all he was headin for the principal.

Il never forget the redness of his face.

AckwelFoley

When i was younger some teacher used to get me to write "repetition" all the time.

I said my day will come.



It did


I rode their ma

haydar

A bit off the point but i remember in supervised study i used to write out the school rules. Should really have studied, i wont say what i got in my leaving.

But i used to sell them for a pound each. Made a mint:D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

KeithM89 wrote: »

I had an old history teacher whod make you write out a page from a book backwards. Then again without any vowels. Cruel bastard!

This is genius.


I remeber we were only allowed to wear grey socks. Any other colour, they were confiscated and you had to walk around for the rest of the day in just your shoes. I have no idea what the point was.

Poutbutton

You were all lucky to have gone to school post 1982 or 3? I had 2 wallops of a nuns hand on the back of the legs for using a particular cloakroom door during lunch hour, I was issued one lash of a leather paddle for being in a "gang" in 6th class and the worst one was when I was in senior infants - girl next to me copied my (incorrect) work and got to the nun's table before me for correction, naturally the Nun assumed I had copied this girls work instead of the other way round. She took out this pink stripey bag from a shop called Winstons back in the day and put me accross her knee and whipped me with the buckle of the belt. I couldn't sit for the rest of the day & went home all cut and marked.
I remember the utter shame at being forced to lie across her knee face down in front of the class while she lashed me with that belt.
My Mum & Dad came to school with me next day and I was left out in the yard to wait while he hopefully ripped the ole cow to shreds.
Totally against any kind of smacking slapping whipping what ever people call physical discipline against any child, I think it's disgusting. If you have to slap someone to get them to do what you want you are nothing but a low life bully.
My parents never slapped any of us either.
My sister got some spelling wrong one day and her Teacher, another Nun, brought me over to her class to "shame" her, she asked me to spell the word which I did then she dragged my older sister to her desk and belted her across the back of the hands with a bamboo stick. Awful. Yet we loved school!
Thank God corporal punishment ceased by the time I started secondary.

barone

we had a black mark board, each time you messed up you got a black square mark beside your name,at the end of the week if you had passed a certain amount you got the stick across your palms however many marks you got passed the cut off point (it was years ago cant remember exactly) me and two other lads had our own feckin sections and got walloped every week..wooden spoons,plastic sticks,anything really..and always in front of the other kids..and this was a public primary school..

demented bastards

byhookorbycrook

In junior infants, if you talked out of turn, a metal clothespeg was put on your lips. If you made a spelling mistake,you might get a belt of the side of the ruler across the legs. I write with my left hand. In first class(I was 5 and a half), I had my left hand tied to the back of the (old-style)desk and the nun hit me alternately on either side of my face to make me write with my right hand.

holystungun9

I had to write out 100 lines, something like, I must do my homework. So being such a smart wee fella, I tried to make it as easy a possible. Got out my ruler, did one line down the length of the page to show all the 'I's, then did the same where the 'h' and the 'k' was to help speed up those. Needless to say, the 'teacher' didn't think I got the 'point' of the exercise.


But look at me now!

holystungun9

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

In junior infants, if you talked out of turn, a metal clothespeg was put on your lips. If you made a spelling mistake,you might get a belt of the side of the ruler across the legs. I write with my left hand. In first class(I was 5 and a half), I had my left hand tied to the back of the (old-style)desk and the nun hit me alternately on either side of my face to make me write with my right hand.

What a horrible ol' b!tch.

DeVore

Punched, kicked, made to fight other boys in a circle, caned, strapped, knuckled and of course the good old fashioned lifted-off-ground-by-the-locks.

I got so sick of the last one that I told the priest if he tried to do it I'd knee him in the balls. He couldnt get near me without risking the crown jewels so instead I got biffed about the office.

The only good thing I can say for it was that you grew a certain self-respect and inner strength *in spite* of it.

And mine was considered a *good* school on the northside (and it was!) :rolleyes:

DeV.

PenguinMan

DeVore wrote: »

Punched, kicked, made to fight other boys in a circle, caned, strapped, knuckled and of course the good old fashioned lifted-off-ground-by-the-locks.

Are you serious?!

boogle

In my school students have to wear shoes. If they wear runners, they're taken off them until the end of the day and they have to wear fluffy slippers around all day. (We have a box of slippers)

DeVore

PenguinMan wrote: »

Are you serious?!

Yup, the headmaster was on record as saying he thought it was "good for boys". It was a way of controlling fights which were going to happen anyway (anyone else remember being "claimed" ? lol).

I fought twice, the second time I broke the lads nose... after that, I didnt have much trouble
It sounds horrific but these fights were going to happen anyway and they were better off being overseen by an adult. There were rules (no fighting on the ground, no kicking, no hairpulling, biting or gouging) and someone to step in if needs be. If two lads were "aggro" with each other, this ended that rather then rolling through the classes. Sometimes it was voluntary on both sides and sometimes not!

We got off light, I grew up in the 70s. The lads from the 60s will tell you that the leg of a wooden chair was used. oh yeah, I forgot the old "wooden duster used as a missile". Saw a lad knocked out by one to the forehead but that was only once.

Its funny to think that this generation have grown up and would find this sort of stuff almost unbelievable (my nephew loves school and cant wait to go in the morning).

Funny, and .... good.


DeV.

PenguinMan

That's unreal... How would they choose the fighters?

Witcher

Our punishments were much the same as others.. essays onlife inside of a golf ball, etc and wrting out the rules from the front of our journal.

Some lads would copy the journal so frequently they would write out a few spares for the next time, always remember some teacher walking over to someone and saying 'Write out page 4&5 of the journal for tomorrow', guy filed through his bag and handed out the copies of pg 4&5 there and then:pac:

cullen5998

Write out photocopied pages of a phone book!
Waste of time

DeVore

PenguinMan wrote: »

That's unreal... How would they choose the fighters?

Either there was going to be a fight between the two lads anyway or they had been scuffling in the classroom or an attempt to kick off. The master would haul the two out by the scruff of the neck and everyone would form a circle around and chant stuff like "aggro, aggro". Sounds mental when I write it but seemed normal then!

You have to remember you could be walking along a corridor minding your own business and a master could clout you for no reason better then "I meant to give you that yesterday". A friend of mine still has a loss of hearing from a perforated eardrum from a bang across the head!

Its not just me right? There must be men over 40 who had similar experiences!

Personally I consider myself lucky. I got into Belvedere just as corporeal punishment was abolished and it was a great school (despite being almost expelled in the first year for decking a lad during an argument.... they were horrified while I was mystified, sure thats how things got settled, no?!).
Apparently thats not how things "rolled" in Belvo

If any of you ever attended John "Titch" Brown's grinds, he was the man who kept me in the school but thats another story

DeV.

Vizzy

DeVore wrote: »

Yup, the headmaster was on record as saying he thought it was "good for boys". It was a way of controlling fights which were going to happen anyway (anyone else remember being "claimed" ? lol).

I fought twice, the second time I broke the lads nose... after that, I didnt have much trouble
It sounds horrific but these fights were going to happen anyway and they were better off being overseen by an adult. There were rules (no fighting on the ground, no kicking, no hairpulling, biting or gouging) and someone to step in if needs be. If two lads were "aggro" with each other, this ended that rather then rolling through the classes. Sometimes it was voluntary on both sides and sometimes not!

We got off light, I grew up in the 70s. The lads from the 60s will tell you that the leg of a wooden chair was used. oh yeah, I forgot the old "wooden duster used as a missile". Saw a lad knocked out by one to the forehead but that was only once.

Its funny to think that this generation have grown up and would find this sort of stuff almost unbelievable (my nephew loves school and cant wait to go in the morning).

Funny, and .... good.


DeV.

Grew up around the same time and I remember all those things( duster,leather strap etc)
One guy also used to line us up and move along using a drumstick( this will sound weird but he was genuinely an "artist" with the drumstick)
We also had a sadistic bitch in Secondary school who used give out ridiculous punishments e.g fill a complete copybook with something like "I must not talk in class".Would have been much more beneficial to get you to summarise a chapter of a book or do a complete exam paper.
Glad to say she cracked up in the end and she now works in a £ shop.

diddlybit

Some of these stories are just...horrifying.

saintsaltynuts

We had a three and a half A4 page School Rules issue from the principal in our school.If you stepped out of line you had to write write the whole thing out(1 hour plus).By 6th year i knew the whole thing off by heart i could have written it in my sleep.Drimnagh Castle it was just in case you were wondering.

DeVore

I highly recommend you don't read The Murphy Report then.... this is the stuff that wasn't considered serious enough to warrant investigation.

oh and as for writing lines? get 20 HB pencils, glue them together, they are almost exactly the with of a standard copy book line. Now you can write a page at a time. Drove my teachers mad because they knew I was cheating somehow but it was all in my handwriting


DeV.

hatrickpatrick

Had one of the most epic Irish teachers ever for the Junior cert, Mr O Dualing (Or "DJ O Dualing" as we called him due to his rapid remixing of aural tapes at the end of class )

He would literally just look around for an essay title if you kept annoying him. Like I mean literally, these two lads were talking down the back for a whole class one day and near the end of it he said "Oh by the way lads, tomorrow afternoon I'll be looking for an essay from each of ye, on, eh... *peers out the window for a second* .......trees."

Tar.Aldarion

Had pretty much no punishment ever, got enough demerits to be suspended a lot of times, maybe even expelled but I never even got one detention, loving life. I remember when a teacher went through our demerits one at a time and he had to turn the A4 books page four times for me, lol!

Only silly little things, throwing yop all over somebody was a fun one, throwing fun snaps etc. Sure twas all just an excuse to beat up the irish.

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foxinsox

essays? pfft! Lightweights... :rolleyes:

Imagine a nun who's ultimate goal in life is to get the perfect split bamboo to hit us with!

She would spend hours splitting the bamboos to use when hitting us, bamboo canes hurt like hell when they are split! :mad:

I remeber being lifted off the ground by my hair, by a lovely nun that taught me in first class, why? because I was talking in class!

bigbadbear

When I was in school they weren't allowed hit us so if we were bold then very little would happen to us. Unsurprisingly, we just did it again. I was a billix in school. I was one of those kids that would have got a waaaay better result in my leaving if I had taken the cane to the palm.

In secondary school I managed to glue 4 pens together to do 4 lines at once. could never control it with 5.....

Pity those sadistic 'christian' brothers and nuns had to abuse their power because I think a 'clip in the ear' is good for a child to learn about right and wrong.

hatrickpatrick

On a more serious note, one of the most revolting punishments I ever heard of was in an industrial school (surprise surprise) and involved people being taken to dentists and having all of their adult teeth pulled out for fairly minor offenses.

DeVore

Really there are more effective ways they just take a lot more work.

My nephew will do anything for me, I mean it... anything. He's so eager to please like all kids are until they have it neglected or beaten out of them. Now I'm not soft with him, I'm actually really really strict about stuff but when he's good, we play Halo and hang out.

John Brown that I mentioned probably saved my ass. I was fighting the system and he took me by the scruff of the neck and told me he'd teach me everything but if I ever raised a fist again, he was done with me. All the bashings, clips, wallops etc, never broke my spirit or those of the lads around me... but it took someone who took an interest in me to bring out what I could do.

Its very hard as a parent, I can only imagine but genuinely you get more with a carrot than a stick.

DeV.

garv123

getting a 2000 word essay on " life as a dimple on a golf ball".
you're done and hand it up proud of the humor you managed to put into it, your heart sinks as he doesnt even reads it and crumples it up and throws it in the bin. C**t. you could have called him every word you like in it and he wouldnt have seen it.

Catari Jaguar

I'm a primary teacher and these stories break my heart. I don't like unneccessary punishment or the jack boot mentality.

You can exclude the kid by telling them to stand out or get out your frustration by shouting at them but neither teaches them anything. Just humiliates them. Be fair, be consistant, don't get emotional because it sends mixed messages on approproate behaviour, leaving kids to guess "What mood is teacher in today?".

Give a warning, explain the correct behaviour that's exected and explain the consequence e.g. "We have a rule on talking in class. If you continue to interrupt you'll have to sit over there." If they keep talking say "X, you're choosing to break the rule on talking in class, so please go on time out until you can come back and try again."

Choice driven teaching and treating misbehaviour as a failed attempt is the way forward. Should be taught in teaching colleges as a classroom management technique.

One of the lads at work made a (particularly giddy) senior infant stay in at lunch and write "I must not be silly" over and over. After a line or two it was illegible. He didn't know what he was writing when I asked him. How is a child to know what "silly" even encompasses, he wasn't told the correct or expected behaviour either. Staying in and writing lines aren't even in our school policy!! Fecking new teachers.... Just a pointless exercise.