You know in our day that whatever punishment we might have gotten in school was going to be much worse when we got home.......
“You know in our day that whatever punishment we might have gotten in school was going to be much worse when we got home.......”
In our PE class, one snarky kid got the wooden paddle and his mother raised a holy stink. So the school called for a PTA meeting which filled the auditorium and hallways with standing room only. Parents stood firmly with our coaches and ridiculed the parent. She moved away! The _itch!
Today, there is no dad in the home to make sure the kid doesn’t act out again.
Today, kids have to have handlers at school. Look at how many aides there are in your local school. Most are handlers who escort the trouble makers around all day and have radios to contact officials if the kid has an episode.
You know in our day that whatever punishment we might have gotten in school was going to be much worse when we got home.......
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In the late 40s/early 50s, Under the ‘Sister or Father’ is NEVER wrong, if one were to complain about something at school one would get it at home, THEN ‘they’ would check with Sister to see what the ‘problem’ was, THEN - next day of school, Sister would ‘teach’ one what the penalties were for ‘carrying tales home from school’.
Sort of kept their ‘atrocities’ in check as ALL were ‘afraid’ to ‘squeal on anyone’.
Probably a factor in the early stages of the ‘Priest abuse’ as ‘we’ had it drummed into us that Priests and Nuns were ‘Gods hand’ and could do no wrong, so much kids of the era were unable to ‘complain’ if the Priest were ‘grabby’ as no one would really listen to them. It really wasn’t till many ‘stood up’ that anything was done and then it was usually a ‘transfer’ and ‘counseling’ when JAIL should have been the ONLY COURSE.
*** You know in our day that whatever punishment we might have gotten in school was going to be much worse when we got home ***
13 years of Catholic school...
no kidding. and the news always seemed to beat you home. Everybody in the hood knew. double jeopardy didn’t apply ...