Where and when were you in school where kids were beaten....not spanked or ruler on palm ala nuns.....for not having homework done?
I went to school deep south in 60s and never saw or heard of such a thing
Never saw a child BEATEN.....not once.
And I was a bad kid.....spanked once last day of 6th grade paddle
Once 7th grads ....paddle...for fighting
Once 8th grade paddle for making a PMS young teacher cry
9th grade for skipping class.....frat paddle....that left marks
4 times in 9 years....and I was full of mischief
You haven’t appropriated Dickens for yourself have you?
“Where and when were you in school where kids were beaten....not spanked or ruler on palm ala nuns.....for not having homework done?
I went to school deep south in 60s and never saw or heard of such a thing
Never saw a child BEATEN.....not once.
And I was a bad kid.....spanked once last day of 6th grade paddle
Once 7th grads ....paddle...for fighting
Once 8th grade paddle for making a PMS young teacher cry
9th grade for skipping class.....frat paddle....that left marks
4 times in 9 years....and I was full of mischief”
I think the thing that caught my eye was the word, “beaten”. I have the same questions as you, wardaddy.
“You haven’t appropriated Dickens for yourself have you?”
Please, may I have some more? ;o)
This was overseas. And yes, it went beyond spanking or a whack with the ruler in some cases. It was not always not having homework done, but having incorrect answers. Roger Waters didn’t always exaggerate.
Since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were big fans of public schools (read the second chapter of the Communist Manifesto), my regard for such schools’ validity has diminished to a very low point.