[alexander_busek]

Straessle said, "It's simply to help boys avoid the default switch of calling mom and dad when things don't go right to bail them out."

When I went to Catholic school, I would rather have starved than telephone my parents (which would, in itself, have been a tremendous hassle, necessitating, as it would have, my going to intimidating Sister DeSalle and asking her to use the one phone at the school - which request she would have most certainly denying, right before whacking the backs of my hands with a steel ruler and sending me back to class).

Regards,

[easternsky]

I guess could take their cell phones away so they couldn't call home. lol

[napscoordinator]

When I went to Catholic school, I would rather have starved than telephone my parents

Me too!!!!!

[FES0844]

Sadly,they don’t make Nuns like they used to.

[NTHockey]

Without exaggerating, I bet there are a million stories just like this. Every Catholic School had a Sister DeSalle. Mine was our sixth grade teacher, Sister Hildegarde - all 6’ of her. I swear that nuns used to take a course in knuckle whacking.