During 12 years of Catholic school, I never witnessed corporal punishment.
During 12 years of Catholic school, I never witnessed corporal punishment.
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At the school I attended, the nuns used to paddle the children who “needed discipline”. They had to get permission from the parents before paddling us, and my mother always granted it, so I always knew the day I’d be paddled and wore as many pairs of underwear as I could fit under my dress. They later abandoned the paddles on the behind for the strap on the hands, which I also received twice. (Once was for the unimaginable offence of writing so small that the nun had trouble reading it.) I like to think that my padding made them change their method of discipline 😁