punishments given out in schools, past or present?

Question

wot kind of punishments do u know about, past or present i dont care.... i need to do an english talk on the subject, yay!!

Answer 1

I went to Grammar School that had pretentions that it was a public school, and punishments were harsh.

Slippering or caning were the norm. To make slippering more painful, a golf ball would be put into the slipper so it made the toe part heavier. It was regular that a master would walk around the class and slap you unexpectedly around the back of the head if he thought your work or attention was insufficient. I have had a board rubber bounced off my head, and in PE I have been hit/poked/prodded with cricket bats, hockey sticks and tennis rackets. Also had footballs kicked at me and tennis and hockey balls thrown at me (by staff, not pupils). Also forced to take cold showers, and pushed into a swimming pool.

The usual lines/detention etc were mixed-in with the above treatments. None of the above abuse was rare. It was common, and freely handed-out to all, not just me. I was at Grammar School from 1966 to 1973.

Answer 2

No, your not the only one. I get emotionally attached to wrestlers and whether they WANT to admit it or not, so do most wrestling fans. Even though I have been watching only since I was 7, which was December 2003 and that doesn't seem long compared to how long you've been watching but when Edge is injured or takes a hiatus, it sucks. Last Summer when Edge got sent to "hell" and took a 3 month hiatus, I was mad because without Edge, SmackDown wasn't entertaining. Because those 3 months it was the same thing every week on SmackDown. WWE Champion Triple H will come out and talk about how Jeff Hardy comes so close to being champion, then they'll start to brawl and then at the PPV Triple H beats Jeff.I was so bored with SmackDown which made Edge's return at Survivor Series make me feel like "Oh Boy SmackDown's getting interesting!". So I know how you feel.

Answer 3

When I was in school in the 80s Litter Duty was a common punishment the person being punished had to go around the schoolyard picking up litter - ewwwwww

In the 1800s in Wales children weren't allowed to speak Welsh - anyone caught doing so had to wear the Welsh Not around their neck all day as a punishment!

Standing in the corner is a classic one! Writing lines! Cane!

A boy in my French class was put in the bin :o - last I heard the French teacher was still there! Good job the boy wasn't eh? ;)

Answer 4

When I was in school, we were either suspended, given an essay to write (anywhere from 1000 to 10000 words, depending on what you did), or we got the strap. None of the above was pleasant. For present, you are in what they call "in-school suspension" or "out of school suspension". There's barely any discipline left in the schools. And teachers wonder why they have kids that misbehave??? If the elementary school teachers would stop teaching kids that spankings, yellings at, etc. was abuse, then maybe kids today would know enough to listen to parents and to the teachers.

Answer 5

In order of severity: "lines", detention. cane - on the backside and only by the Headmaster. Stuffing an exercise book down the rear of the trousers was known as booking your seat. All this at grammar school, and it helped to produce a far better-educated school-leaver than the present namby-pamby system.

Answer 6

1. Thwacked on the **** with a notched cane
2. Thwacked on the hand with a notched cane
3. Throw the blackboard duster at your head (duster half wood, half cloth)

I hope i do not offend anyone by using the term blackboard but that was what is was called many years ago when i attended school, if you received any of the above you deserved it, the thought of suing the teacher wasn't about in those days and it did me no harm.

Answer 7

My brother is now 41 in the junior school he was caned on the back of the legs because of a three strike rule. If you were deemed to break the rules three times you were caned. The third rule broken was playing in the sand pit at lunch time.

Answer 8

The dreaded cane (painful) And the slipper .That meant bend over and the teacher would wack you with a slipper or cane .Course we used to stuff paper it our trousers when we knew that was coming . It was not until adult hood that i realised that some of the teachers that relished these punisments were really pedo pervos. (one insisted on bare bottoms). Never did any harm though and kept us in line . And of course the wonderful blackboard duster in the head.

Answer 9

In primary school I was taught by a nun, when I was about eight. If you were deemed to have broken the rules, she would make you hold out your hand, clench your fist to draw the skin tight, and would then take a plastic ruler and whack you as hard as she could with it.
Nice. Hope she's dead now.

Answer 10

When I was a school for punishment we usually got detention, or an exercise to write out, but that's only when we got caught.