Reading all the comments here and then having to deal again with religious assholes who keep claiming that God gis good, god is kind, my imaginary god is everything that I am not
Fuck your imaginary stone age religion. Religion is a mental illness
Child of the '60s here.
It’s real; I lived it. Grade school, it was nuns. Beaten up by priests (as well as most of the other teachers) in high school.We lived in a small town suburb of Memphis in Mississippi in the 1980’s. I’d heard about what some of the Sisters did to students from friends that weren’t southern baptists. I proceeded to call them out at the Mall. I was young and have no idea if those nuns were even associated with the Catholic school I’d heard horror stories from. My mom was so apologetic. This husky & tall for his age ten year old ginger headed Martin Luther of my own design delivered my own Theses. I felt badass. My mother wanted to strangle me. Forty plus years later she shares it as the funniest thing I ever did as a child.
Oh yeah, a lot of old Catholics are terrified of nuns for that reason. It was always fun to shock them by saying how my school’s nun was nice. The nuns especially targeted the sin of left handedness
“Left hand is only for wanking” - Ridicule 19:5
That was a real and common thing, not even just in catholic schools.
Yeah, my kindergarten teacher didn’t like me using my left hand to write for some reason, so slapped my hand with a ruler. Now I write with my right hand.
There are still some southern states (because ofc) that legally allow teachers to use corporal punishment at their discretion.
Yeah. Although, every baby boomer who’s talked to me about catholic school seems really traumatised by it
Dude, the nuns at my dad’s elementary school beat him and traumatized him so much that he has PTSD.
Its pure evil to abuse a child. No surprise that agents of the church took no issue with such evil behaviour.
My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.
When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.
So yeah, it happens.
I was changed from left- to right-handed by the Calgary school board in 1979 or so.
In secondary school my chem teacher would definitely throw chalk if you weren’t paying attention. It’s better than chalk brushes.
During the 80s there was a big push to not abuse children, but before that, it was very common.
My mother told me a story about how once my uncle was in school and the teacher told him to go out and cut a switch, which is just a thin stick good for whipping with. He cried, went out and got one, came back, and it turned out it was for someone else. This would have been the 60s or 70s maybe. My mom also mentioned that the typing (typewriter) teacher would smack fingers with a ruler when mistakes were made. This was a public school.
So yea, definitely a real thing that happened.
Yes, they beat my grandfather for trying to be left-handed
My grandmother too.
That’s so absurd it would be funny if it wasn’t so cruel
A friend of mine is also left handed and I only found out when we started a game of darts and he switched hands. Under communism writing with the left hand was not allowed for some reason.
No worries, they beat my dad in public school for the same thing. My mother told my kindergarten teacher to fuck off when she suggested my left handedness needed to be corrected (in 1989).
It is real. My mother went to an all girls catholic school. She said the wrong answers as well as bad behavior warranted being whacked with a ruler. Things were even worse if you are sinister.
I don’t know about now, but when my parents were in school it was definitely very common. There is still no law against corporal punishment in private schools in the US, and only 33 out of 50 states have laws against it in their public schools.
In El Salvador, the nuns were way more hardcore than just using a ruler.
Once one made my dad kneel on raw rice while holding up books for half an hour.
My mom has to do something similar too but with salt outside in the sun, but for a bit less time.
I went to various Christian schools and had one teacher bend me over her knee and paddle me. But I was already taller/bigger than her. So ironic that I ended up liking short women and spanking. Like, what are the odds!?
Very high given you were spanked by short women as a kid
When I was in elementary school in the 70s in rural Virginia the teachers would hit you with rulers all the time. The principal had a paddle that resembled a cricket bat that he used.
I don’t know if schools allow corporal punishment still.
My principal had that, too! He kept it hanging on the wall in his office, and students could see it when we walked by. It scared me, but I never saw or heard of him using it on anyone.
Yeah mine kept it hanging on his wall as well and he would walk around with it sometimes when the buses were leaving.
I am sure he did all that as a deterrent to prevent bad behavior.
