[SVTCobra03]

I never attended Parochial schools, but don’t nuns whack students with rulers. Or is that an urban myth. Inquiring minds want to know.

[BenKenobi]

I’ve heard it was quite common, but haven’t experienced it myself, so I can neither confirm, nor deny.

[ConorMacNessa]

I was in Catholic school for ten years. Nonoe of the nuns in any of my schools used corporal punishment. I believe they did in an earlier era.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Joe 6-pack]

"I never attended Parochial schools, but don’t nuns whack students with rulers. Or is that an urban myth. Inquiring minds want to know."

I went to a Catholic elementary school, and I was the recipient of one steel ruler across the knuckles, and a few backside paddlings.

That was back in the 70's.

[mrs. a]

I went through 12 years of Catholic schools in the 60’s and 70’s. The nuns were the ones out on the playground with us, playing foursquare and tetherball and dodge ball. The lay teachers were the sourpusses!

We preferred our nuns - except when the Vikings lost (their order was based in Minnesota.) That was usually “pop quiz” day.

That’s about as nasty as they got...

[T Minus Four]

I was in Catholic school for all 12 years and graduated in ‘75. I never saw a nun or lay teacher lay a hand on a child. They resorted to humiliation and verbal abuse :-)

But the public school kids had plenty of stories about being ‘paddled’!