What punishments did you recive in primary/secondary school.

RiseToTheTop · 11-04-2012 03:36PM #1

I was in primary from 1994 to 1999. I remember in 5th class I got In a fight and had to use a small desk at the side of the room for 2 days. I had to kneel down to use the desk, my knees were rubbing the very hard wooden floor and I wasn't allowed stand up

In secondary school I had to stand up and face the corner for 30 minutes after I didn't write all my lines for my teacher. "History is a study of our past." Jesus, it's been 11 years since i've had him but I still remember that sentence. If you got a question wrong in class you'd have to write that sentence 125 times.

Also, in primary I was looking for a payphone and accidentally picked up the one in the school shop. A brother saw me and literally shouted full force into my face to get off it, I was only 8 at the time. Even the receptionist was shocked.

Also my teacher for 5th/6th class was a pedo, he felt up boys in the past and one in front of me, thankfully he didnt go near me. What are yer stories?

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Ghandee · 11-04-2012 03:41PM

Primary school, was either a ruler or a meter stick, ocassionally we got slapped with a cane which was named 'Alfie'

In Secondary school we just used to get the crap knocked out of us by one or two sadistic pricks!

:mad:

Was pretty enjoyable bumping into one teacher a few years back in a pub, who got a bit intimidated by the once 13 year old, who was now a grown man!

Kids these days dont know how lucky they are tbh!

Seachmall · 11-04-2012 03:43PM

The headmaster threatened to lock Juste, my Arabian thoroughbred, in the stables for a fortnight limiting my access to her.

I was very distressed at the thought, fortunately I learned my lesson early and she was released after only a few minutes of captivity.

muttley-dps · 11-04-2012 03:46PM

Caught and lifted by the ear.
Caught and lifted by the sideburns.
Smacked 3 times across the face - I deserved it too!
The odd detention and lines - good times

IM0 · 11-04-2012 03:46PM

corkman wrote:

I was in primary from 1994 to 1999. I remember in 5th class I got In a fight and had to use a small desk at the side of the room for 2 days. I had to kneel down to use the desk, my knees were rubbing the very hard wooden floor and I wasn't allowed stand up

In secondary school I had to stand up and face the corner for 30 minutes after I didn't write all my lines for my teacher. "History is a study of our past." Jesus, it's been 11 years since i've had him but I still remember that sentence. If you got a question wrong in class you'd have to write that sentence 125 times.

Also, in primary I was looking for a payphone and accidentally picked up the one in the school shop. A brother saw me and literally shouted full force into my face to get off it, I was only 8 at the time. Even the receptionist was shocked.

Also my teacher for 5th/6th class was a pedo, he felt up boys in the past and one in front of me, thankfully he didnt go near me. What are yer stories?

so thats why you turned into a prick!

and thats worth the ban!

Mickey H · 11-04-2012 03:48PM

I was kept in at 11 O'Clock break once for talking in class.

mikemac1 · 11-04-2012 03:48PM

Sweeping the yards in primary school and in secondary school you'd be sweeping the foyer

A few years later I was working as barman down the local hotel and the caretaker saw me sweeping and laughed to all his friends that he trained me to sweep and look at me now
Made me feel like a right loser

cocoshovel · 11-04-2012 03:49PM

We had to write what bad thing we did in "THE BOOK!". We were bloody terrified of that book, but alls we really had to do was write the bad thing we did and sign it.

I remember kids being in tears just for having to write in it.

In secondary school. None really, just detention, which consisted of 1 hour of writing lines after school. Anything we did wrong was written in our diaries and our parents had to sign it. People used to get like 10 notes a week, nobody gave 2 fúcks. None of the punishments were really deterrents

ScumLord · 11-04-2012 03:49PM

One teacher liked the ruler, another one like to punch you in the back with her diamond ring. Solitary confinement or being kept in during any breaks for days on end was common. Smacks up side the head and being stabbed with a compass was another one, jabbed in the ribs with a ring binder was another one, most my teachers from national school to secondary school where pricks.

JohnMarston · 11-04-2012 03:50PM

Primary school it was being belted across the knuckles with a ruler, and lines, and detention.
Secondary school it was detention. If you didnt do your homework one teacher made you write out parts of the science textbook, entire chapters.

One teacher we had was an older guy but complete messer sometimes. He was covering for an absent teacher for a german class.
When he walked in he asked us was this german.

One smartass fella said 'no'

He made him write out the word 'no' two thousand times.

As you do

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-04-2012 03:50PM

Bits of chalk and blackboard dusters were thrown in my direction

Lots of fines for smoking

CardBordWindow · 11-04-2012 03:50PM

In primary school, the punishment was to have to stand in the hall during lunch. It was beneath a high window that you couldn't look out of, but you could hear all your friends playing soccer outside.

In secondary Maths, a few lads had to write out a few pages out of the log book.

themadchef · 11-04-2012 03:56PM

I was good in school

I think that peaking as a rebel so young in life is probably actually in your favour.

I intend to go mental in my 40ts.

Lawrence1895 · 11-04-2012 04:01PM

Got a pile (30 or so) of books, A4 size, thrown onto my table, very close to my head. I guess, the teacher wanted to wake me up :pac:

Eroticfishcake · 11-04-2012 04:03PM

I had to stand with my arms out holding my schoolbag in right hand for the 40 minutes of maths period for being late.

Spent a week during the summer holidays cleaning chewing gum of the underneath of all the desks in the school for being caught drinking on a school trip.

SunnyDub1 · 11-04-2012 04:05PM

Primary school - lines or a bold letter in our journals.
Secondary - Detention, suspension

LETHAL LADY · 11-04-2012 04:12PM

In secondary school being made to wear a hideous ****e brown coloured jumper and skirt and a pukey peach coloured shirt underneath. We all looked like giant turds heading to school.

who the fug · 11-04-2012 04:40PM

Lines were nae bother to me, the old five black pens, 3 sheets of carbon paper

So first visit to new headmaster, typical full of it 14 year old, should have twigged something was up when he said he asked if I liked history.

Yes I said like an idiot

Right 6 pages on the causes on the French Revolution on my desk at 08:30 tomorrow morning.

Bastarded graded it, anything less than a B it had to be done again

Simply but effective.

Spunge · 11-04-2012 04:51PM

used to get a smack of a book on the hand in junior and senior infants.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-04-2012 04:54PM

I went to school with black socks instead of unifrom grey.

The confiscated my scoks. Strange.

derfderf · 11-04-2012 05:10PM

A four page essay on the dangers of thumbtacs in class.

Mickey H · 11-04-2012 05:13PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I went to school with black socks instead of unifrom grey.

The confiscated my scoks. Strange.

Good job your knickers were the right colour or else you were rightly screwed.

Conall Cernach · 11-04-2012 05:16PM

I had Catherine Flanagan's big black ruler with a magnifying glass in one end broken over my hand by Mrs. Sharkey when I was about 5 or 6. I don't think I was punished much after that in primary except maybe being made to stand against the wall for missing spellings or something.

In secondary school we got the usual lines or essays to write. One teacher used to get us to write out pages from the geography book "Pages 4, 6, 8 and 10 Mr Cernach" he'd shout but he never seemed to read them so we'd hand him any old stuff. Another would make you stand outside the door. In 4th year we had a class that was right beside the front door of the school so one lad when he was kicked out picked a heap of berries off a bush growing at the door and flicked them under it for the rest of the class much to our amusement. Another poor sod found himself with a 6 page essay to write for a teacher called Rita so he decided to be a bit inventive and about halfway through wrote "Rita is a bitch" in it. Turns out she sat down and read it. He ended up getting a suspension. In that 4th year class I think there were a total of 26 suspensions and 3 expulsions and there was only something like 28 of us in it.

navandiver · 11-04-2012 05:18PM

If we were caught chewing chewing gum in Irish class for Junior Cert we were given a choice
a fine of two euro to be given to charity
lunchtime clean up or
stick the chewing gum to your forehead for the remainder of the class

Needless to say the sticking the gum to your forehead was the one chosen by the majority of people!!

foxyboxer · 11-04-2012 05:20PM

Any punishment I received in school was intended to develop my self confidence, foster my skills in critical and independent thinking and condition me to become a well rounded citizen of our country.

Not.

markc1184 · 11-04-2012 05:25PM

In 6th class rather than put us standing in the corner, our teacher would spill a load of biro's on the floor, line them up and then have us kneel on them. We'd be in bits by the end of it.

pawrick · 11-04-2012 05:26PM

Primary School
meter stick and cane - the nun who used to do that didnt really aim at anyone just in a general direction as she went around - if you weren't paying attention you'd get clipped otherwise you were safe.

Sent around the school yard picking up the litter - we had to take turns but sometimes you'd get an extra turn for talking.

Put in charge of the infants class when teachers were out - wasn't meant to be a punishment but it was.

Secondary School
Picked up by the lockes and ear by one teacher for "rearranging the furniture" ie moving my desk closer to the radiator one freezing morning.
Class mate told to stab me with a compass a few times for chatting too much
never got detention but was almost expelled for waving at the principle one day - he must have been hungover or something
Was confined to quarters on a school boat trip to france.

foxyboxer · 11-04-2012 05:35PM

In all honesty, in hindsight, the greatest punishment was nothing physical but the sheer pressure and endurance ordeal of rote learning that was/is the Leaving Cert.

cloud493 · 11-04-2012 05:36PM

If I recall, it was something minor, you had to sit on the naughty step. If it was something serious, they'd call your parents.

saa · 11-04-2012 05:37PM

Usually humiliated, intimidated and once I was given detention and didn't show up as soon as I figured out nothing would happen if I didn't go I stopped worrying about "punishments" or at least lost all respect for adults for not following through are using anger or humiliation.

What punishments did you recive in primary/secondary school.

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