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October 15, 2004
a question for you
here's an interesting question that came up in a conversation i was having recently, and i'm going to shamelessly crib from that conversation and ask the question of all of you, because i think the answers will be very enlightening:
when you were a kid in school, were you ever disciplined by a schoolteacher or by the school for something? if so, what?
i was rarely disciplined because i was extremely shy and quiet, and never missed classes. however, i had a particularly scary 6th grade teacher who would call students back into the coat room and yell at them and smack his very wide, heavy yardstick against the walls in a threatening manner. i think occasionally he did spank a child. i know i was called back there and yelled at at least once, but i can't recall what for-- most likely for not having my homework.
my stepfather would joke with me that they should send me to school with a galvanized bucket on my ass to protect me from the evil mr. stafford. i was really quite terrified of the man.
Posted by lisa at October 15, 2004 05:01 PM | TrackBack
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No surprise, I got in trouble all the time. Almost never enough to where the school would tell my parents.
Going to Catholic school brings with it interesting punishments. My sister had the old nun who would pull their hair and give noogies (to the first graders).
Personally, I transcribed the entire contents of chapter 5, St. Luke's Gospel, five times. I did chapter one, three and seven, I think. The words all start blurring after a while. My hand still hurts when it rains.
Almost everything I got in trouble for was wise ass remarks, not respecting authority, and there was the one incident of the "fart spray" discharged in the 5th grade classroom.
Strangely, I never got caught for any of the worse things we did (mostly highschool), like throwing garbage cans down 4 flights of stairs, scaring the shit out of the cleaning ladies various ways, vasaline on the doorknobs, fireworks in the hall, stealing master keys to the school (I still have a copy of the SAT scores for 700+ students of my junior year as proof of that one), and the list just goes on and on.
Posted by: Joe on October 15, 2004 09:22 PM
I got in trouble in elementry school only a few times. Mostly for not paying attention. I think I got paddled once, but that was for not paying attention in a different way. I was implicated as a participant in some sort of disagreement over playground equipment during recess. I just happened to be nearby, but I still got paddled because the teacher wasn't there and trusted the information she got.
It's when I started developing my sociopathic tendencies, really. I told my parents moving to Greenville was the problem, and my Dad gave me the right, but also wrong, answer that I would have encountered the same kind of things in later grades in Eugene. True, but it diverted the blame from Greenville to all humanity.
Oh, the teacher was the same teacher that, when I described the move from Eugene and Greenvile, going into detail about detouring through Virginia after visiting relatives in Kingsport, TN in oder to avoid construction on I-40, said "No, you didn't". So we were kind of doomed from the start.
Jesus, Jason, carry grudges much?
Posted by: Jason! on October 16, 2004 12:26 PM
Like Joe, I got busted for small stuff (including a lot of perceived sass) but not for the worse stuff that I did (slashing bus seats with a razor blade, say).
Once I got busted for memorizing a geometry test and telling everyone in a later period what the questions were.
But generally I was a good kid.
Posted by: Phil on October 20, 2004 12:32 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.