Were you hit by a teacher in school

cruiser178 · 14-04-2012 07:04PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Started school at 3.5 (They needed numbers)In senoir infants aged 4.5 I regularly had a metal clothes peg put on my lips for talking. Same nun went on to be principal later. In 1st, aged 5.5, my left hand was tied behind me regularly and I was slapped across the face until I picked up the pencil with my right hand. It was the one time my mother ever went to the school and it stopped. In 2nd we'd get the side of the yard stick across the legs for not being able to ream off answers in religion. 3rd/4th/5th/6th were lay teachers thankfully.

When I went to training college, my answer to the standard question of why I wanted to be a teacher was that I felt I could get good from children without resorting to intimidating them. I got in!!

If that is the reason you became a teacher then I take my hat off to your pure dedication *tips cap

Ronin247 · 14-04-2012 07:14PM

Lippy C wrote: »

I was ten years old sat at my desk and the headmaster stood behind me and with the full force of his hand hit the side of my face knocking me off the seat I sat back down and sobbed for the rest of the class. I don't know how the class carried on because all you could hear was me crying.If I ever wished anyone any bad luck in life it would be to that son of a b***h...I will never understand how anyone could do that to a small girl.

Name and shame the pr*ck.

GaryIrv93 · 14-04-2012 07:26PM

''The masters at Leamy's school all have straps and sticks. They hit you if you don't know that God made the world, or if you don't know the patron saint of Limerick. They hit you if you can't say the ''Hail Mary'' in Irish, or if you can't ask for the Lavatory Pass in Irish. They hit you if you laugh, if you're late, or if you talk. One headmaster would hit you if you don't know that Eamonn De Valera was the greatest man that ever lived. Another will hit you if you don't know that Michael Collins was the greatest man that ever lived.''

Lippy C · 14-04-2012 07:26PM

Oh I don't know if I should!!?? His son was in my class and he used to batter the poor lad daily god only knows what he had to endure at home...

Wetai · 14-04-2012 07:32PM

I don't think I was. I was born in 92 and started primary school when I was 5 (FWIW).
My oldest sister (who isn't a lot older than me - only a few years) wasn't treated very well in PS, it was really only one of them who did it (Who has/d the same last name as the current principal - probably related as it's a small town), she told me she was tied to the chair by him

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theteal · 14-04-2012 07:32PM

Tom Cruise wrote: »

drimnage castle cbs school had a few bender brothers.
But it was the teachers not the brothers that would hit you.
One teacher i swear if i met him up a dark ally way with no1 around i would kill him.Beating up kids and degrading kids i swear i would kill him slowly.
He only attacked me one time myself but i swear he hit me so hard i cried and laughed at the same time.:mad:

ah the auld castle. . . i could tell some stories. i was never hit but i came fairly close several times, to say i was a cheeky little bollx would be fairly apt (until we got to 4th class and the teacher gave out sweets for good behaviour; i like sweets).

i did witness a fair few beatings alright though. i remember one in particular, the teacher was out of the room, the lad beside me did/said something funny (what's not funny to a 10yr old?) and it resulted in a fair few of us in fits of laughter. this big pr!ck of a teacher walking the hall hears the laughter and sticks his head in. silence immediately falls on the room. then, a small, muffled, spluttered snigger is heard from the quiet lad at the front of the row - never in trouble in his life, just couldn't hold the laughter. anyway, in strolls the big lug with his sights fixed directly on the quiet lad, tells him to stand up and put out his hands. the pr!ck then fishes a ruler out of somewhere and proceeds to proper whack this child about 5 times on each hand. it was easily the most painful thing i'd ever seen and I felt so bad for that kid - hence the memory is so vivid.

when was corporal punishment banned? i'm an '83 baby and i'm fairly sure i shouldn't have been seeing these things

meoklmrk91 · 14-04-2012 07:38PM

I was born in 1991, when I was in Junior Infants we had a substitute because our teacher was on maternity leave. She was an old woman, and really mean at that, I asked to go to the toilet and she hit me. She hit another girl that day for something similar as well, she hadn't even been in the school that long. When my mother picked my up I told her what had happened she was livid because I had kidney problems as a kid and when I had to go, I had to go, she went in and spoke to the principle and the next day we had a new substitute.

There was also a remedial teacher who came to our school who I can only describe as a bitch on wheels, I never went to her but I remember my sister telling my mother about a boy in her class who went to this woman for classes, he came back to class crying because she had stabbed him in the back of the hand with a biro because he didn't get spellings right. She was well known for this sort of thing and often would punch kids into the back of the head for similar stuff. She is now teaching my niece, I wouldn't let her teach a dog. This would have happened in the early 2000's.

Also stories went around that the principle of our school had in fact been fired from his last position for hitting a student, having had him a couple of inches from my face screaming at me, red with anger and spitting everywhere I would believe it. I can't understand how a teacher who hit a child could be hired again.

whatdoicare · 14-04-2012 07:52PM

Had a teacher in third class who split the back of my head open when she whacked me. Needed stitches too.

From what I remember she hit me because I was day dreaming and wasn't following along with the class- I had actually finished reading the story myself and the four that came after it. It was a book on Irish legends which I loved!

They had to get two male teachers in to help the principal pry my dads hands from round her neck!

She never lost her job though even after she spent time in the looney bin off and on for a good few years.

Galwayguy35 · 14-04-2012 08:13PM

kraggy wrote: »

It would be better if people included what age they are so we can see when were the most recent examples of unlawful corporal punishment out of interest.

Personally, I think it would be an idea to reintroduce it. With strict guidelines. Some young folk are completely out of control and need a bit of a beating.

Im 37, got walloped when i was about 13 so corporal punishment was offically gone by then but not offically it seems. Not sure if people will agree with me but i think it depends on who your parents were TBH. The kid whose parents had the "good job" never seemed to be hit.

shopaholic01 · 14-04-2012 08:17PM

.The kid whose parents had the "good job" never seemed to be hit.[/QUOTE]

Yes , they loved you alright if you 'were from money'.

At the business end of my 30's

byhookorbycrook · 14-04-2012 08:24PM

I teach learning support, in my day at school, "my" children were most often the ones who got belted.I also take high ability
students, who often correct something I say(and are usually right.)In my time at school, they would have been thumped for that.

I'd hate to see corporal punishment of any kind re-introduced. It would be too easy to lash out at a child, instead of trying to understand where the child was coming from.

SeaFields · 14-04-2012 08:40PM

My Irish teacher used to put us in alphabetical order in his class. As luck would have it I used to have to sit at the desk directly under his high teacher chair with my buddy next to me, within arms reach of the teacher.

He would keep a close eye on our work and would give the buddy a tap on the head when he got something wrong.

One day tho my buddy snapped, jumped out of his chair and starting shouting he couldn't take it any more and generally ranting at the teacher. The teacher said he didn't think he was hitting him that hard and put forward a solution that was to sit my buddy in the teachers chair while he sat next to me and then told my buddy to give as good as he ever got. The buddy gave him a clatter on the head.

Fairest teacher we ever had.

zenno · 14-04-2012 08:57PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I teach learning support, in my day at school, "my" children were most often the ones who got belted.I also take high ability students, who often correct something I say(and are usually right.)In my time at school, they would have been thumped for that.

I'd hate to see corporal punishment of any kind re-introduced. It would be too easy to lash out at a child, instead of trying to understand where the child was coming from.

And with that comment I will give it a Live thanks as this is the attitude to have and a very educated way of looking at this.

Cantona's Collars · 14-04-2012 09:02PM

Couldn't you imagine some of the little bollixes going around these days being transported back in time to face the teachers we had?

AlcatrazLogan · 14-04-2012 09:08PM

When I was in 4th class the teacher would often press her ring into your back, I mean really press it in there and it was a sharp ring too. She was mean and malicious. This would've been around '96 or '97.

One day she came into work with a nasty black eye and I've always wondered if she had an abusive husband and was taking out her frustration on her students.

Andy-Pandy · 14-04-2012 09:22PM

When i was in 6th class i got punched in the stomach by a teacher about 2 weeks after i had got my appendix out,. I was so angry that i smacked her in the head with a tennis racket. I think she was so shocked when she found out i still had stitches (they where more staples than stitches) in that she never mentioned the fact that i clocked her over the head pretty hard.

Galwayguy35 · 14-04-2012 09:29PM

A guy I work with went to the christian brothers. One day one of them sat him on his lap and asked him did he ever see a blue movie. Bad to the core some of them were, castration is too good for them.

BeerWolf · 14-04-2012 09:31PM

Eeyup - disciplinary action; Getting smacked on your extended fingers with the edge of a ruler, and in a Malaysian school... some bitch teacher had this fetish of pinching the ear lobe of students with her nails.

Lisha · 14-04-2012 09:37PM

Yeah I got thumped often especailly in 5/6th class by a horrible man who was only putting down the yrs til retirement. P***ck had a wonderful ability to thump the upper half of my arm, I don't know how but he always met bone, damn sore. Knuckles in the head too.

THis was in 88-90. I hated him I was good at school very interested, but crap at maths. Boy oh boy he would ask a question but he would only ask those who did not know the answer. Just so he could humiliate them.

I stopped watching winning streak yrs ago after that man won loads of money on it. Turned me inside out.

I know others suffered worse than me, but they really know which parents were too quiet to stand up for their kids.:(

mattjack · 14-04-2012 09:41PM

Lisha wrote: »

Yeah I got thumped often especailly in 5/6th class by a horrible man who was only putting down the yrs til retirement. P***ck had a wonderful ability to thump the upper half of my arm, I don't know how but he always met bone, damn sore. Knuckles in the head too.

THis was in 88-90. I hated him I was good at school very interested, but crap at maths. Boy oh boy he would ask a question but he would only ask those who did not know the answer. Just so he could humiliate them.

I stopped watching winning streak yrs ago after that man won loads of money on it. Turned me inside out.

I know others suffered worse than me, but they really know which parents were too quiet to stand up for their kids.:(

Fortune often favours a cunt.

Tom Cruise · 14-04-2012 09:48PM

We used to have a teacher who used to put our hand on the rediator till we screamed coz he felt it was funny to do so.The thing is our parents had it worse and their parents even more so.I remember my aunts telling storys of nuns torturing kids for not wearing their full uniform.Nowadays the kids in some schools seem to be beating up the teachers which i also do not condone.

johnnybmac · 14-04-2012 10:06PM

Born in 72. Regularly hit with a bamboo cane across the tips of the fingers by the principal in St Senan's NS, Enniscorthy up until about second class...
Copped myself on after a talking to by my then teacher (Basically, stop mixing with a certain kid (My best mate at the time) and I wouldn't be in trouble anymore) It worked

Went to the CBS (Enniscorthy) in 84. Then, In second year, an old brother called Moore came in to the school. We called him Bilko on account of his resemblance to Phil Silvers :rolleyes:.

Anyway, he gave me a serious beating one day (with his fists) for laughing in class:eek: . He did the same to a lot of other lads... I think he lasted another two years before he was moved on. I still remember the strange aroma of old spice and Woodbine

theteal · 14-04-2012 10:53PM

Tom Cruise wrote: »

We used to have a teacher who used to put our hand on the rediator till we screamed coz he felt it was funny to do so.The thing is our parents had it worse and their parents even more so.I remember my aunts telling storys of nuns torturing kids for not wearing their full uniform.Nowadays the kids in some schools seem to be beating up the teachers which i also do not condone.

i'm trying to remember who did the radiator. . .? primary or secondary?

theteal · 14-04-2012 10:56PM

johnnybmac wrote: »

Went to the CBS (Enniscorthy) in 84.

Brother O there at that time? Legend of a man (not all the brothers were baxtards!), brought hurling back to the castle, we got to croker in our first year playing!

swimming in a sea · 14-04-2012 11:04PM

i remember getting plenty of slaps around the back of the head, stick across the knuckles. I didn't think much about at the time but i was only fu*king 4,
see a four year old now i realize they are only babies.

god i hate that bitch, the year of this was 1984, i don't know when corporal punishment was stopped but surely you could never have assaulted a four year old.

swimming in a sea · 14-04-2012 11:06PM

Tom Cruise wrote: »

We used to have a teacher who used to put our hand on the rediator till we screamed coz he felt it was funny to do so.The thing is our parents had it worse and their parents even more so.I remember my aunts telling storys of nuns torturing kids for not wearing their full uniform.Nowadays the kids in some schools seem to be beating up the teachers which i also do not condone.

the radiator thing was done to me to, repressed memories are coming back to haunt me

the purple tin · 15-04-2012 10:32AM

Had a couple of real psychopaths for teachers. It must be very hard to give a teacher the sack because complaints were made to the headmasters(two different schools) but they still worked on until retirement.
Those are the worst kind of teacher from a learning point of view also, as being on edge and scared all the time makes it very hard to learn anything.

kelle · 15-04-2012 11:13AM

I get irritable when I hear people say schooldays are the best days of your life, because my main memories from the age of 7 being worried sick my teacher wouldn't be in a good mood. If she was, that was fine because we may only get one or two slaps/wallops to the face/pinches to the neck. Otherwise we came home with raw hands and red necks or cheeks. I still can't understand to this day why she believed that if a child didn't understand something, that assaulting them was the solution rather than explaining in a different way.

Worst of all, our parents just accepted this. Every day when I came home from school, my father would affectionately (:eek:) ask "So how many slaps did you get today" and just a nod of the head in apathetic fashion when we told him.

When my children started school, I was emotional enough on their first day - if I had known they would endure even a fraction of the torture we did I would not have let them near the place. But I understand our parents didn't know any different.

MadameGascar · 15-04-2012 11:16AM

Ruled with the meter stick in primary school. Same teacher used to make us sit quiet for an hour and watch him eat a chocolate bar,the mental punishment was worse.:p Don't understand how teachers brought themselves to 'discipline' kids the done way at the time...what if you actually liked children?!

Had a good few books/dusters/whatever was at hand fired at me in secondary.

LadyMayBelle · 15-04-2012 11:21AM

I remember in 4th class being taught by a nun who would hit you with a ruler or knitting needles. For me it was on the hands and I was a 'good' kid in the class.. That would have been in 93.

Were you hit by a teacher in school

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