Posted on 05/01/2022 1:22:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff
We all know the stereotype, of the nun teacher wrapping a student knuckles, but my dad had a story from his Catholic school days in the 40's.
One of his friends made a nun cry. Mother Superior was called and my dad's friend back talked to Mother Superior, and she she slapped him so hard that he hit the blackboard and broke his arm.
My dad was surprised that his friend didn't have another broken arm, when his parents found out.
Very good point.
If people don’t think bombarding prepubeykids with sex info is abuse they’re stupid.
The priest did.
Was his name Ron Jeremy?
never went to Catholic “school” but went to catechism two hours every Wednesday afternoon, that was enough. Sister Knuckleduster ran a tight classroom...
We all know the stereotype, of the nun teacher wrapping a student knuckles, but my dad had a story from his Catholic school days in the 40’s.
One of his friends made a nun cry. Mother Superior was called and my dad’s friend back talked to Mother Superior, and she she slapped him so hard that he hit the blackboard and broke his arm.
My dad was surprised that his friend didn’t have another broken arm, when his parents found out.
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I was taught exclusively by nuns for eight years (1948-1955), and have always reflected upon that experience with great pleasure. Nuns in those days were not afraid to apply corporal punishment that’s for sure. Two examples: A nun overheard me using curse words in about the fourth grade, grabbed me by the ear, marched me into the boys room and washed my mouth out with soap! In about the seventh grade one of the sisters witnessed me pushing another kid off a 6-foot wall. She spun me around ordered me to hold out my hands, and rapped my knuckles with a ruler like a maniac!
I could go on relating those kinds of fond memories because there are quite a few of them.
If a bully started something all we had to say was “We are telling Sister Superior!”
Did you see a bully quake in his shoes?
imagine todays public school teacher in a classroom with 35 kids teaching them arithmetic, English, religion, reading comprehension, spelling, history, geography, etc and even having time to turn down the lights and READ to us....those reading sessions were the best.....
I know people complain all the time but I will say I had the best Catholic school nun teachers and my grade school time was fantastic, except when I didn't get picked for cheerleading...:(
I didn’t go to catholic school but we had punishment with a paddle board. It was 1967 and my home room teacher had enough of my pranks and swatted me with a board that had holes drilled in it. It brought tears to my eyes and I was a good boy afterwards. Although I kept my bubble gum business going. I charged 2 cents for a penny gum. 100% profit.
My dad went to an all boys Catholic school where the Brothers taught. He told us one student got a busted eardrum and lost his hearing when he got smart with a brother.
The parents sued and lost. This is going way back to the late 40s. The 1980s movie, Heaven Help Us, with Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon, takes place in the 6os is about an all boys Catholic School with one abuser. I think the boys had it a lot harder than girls in parochial schools way back in the day.
I attended Catholic schools 1st through 12th grade; I didn’t go to a public school until I went to college.
I’m glad I did go to Catholic schools during my formative years, because they stressed education and discipline and character.
Yeah, some of our nuns were battle axes; but some were real treasures. I’m in my 70s now, but I still look back fondly on my 4th grade nun; she was wonderful, full of laughter and always smiling. The entire class loved her, even the “bad boys” and “bad girls” (and I fell into the former on occasion).
In high school there was a strictness and discipline; and though we were a co-ed school, there were no mixed classes or mixed lunch breaks until I was a senior. And we sure made up for that on weekends.
At least the nuns didn’t promote a perverted political agenda, as teachers unions do now, they were just very disciplined.
Correction:
At least the nuns didn’t promote a perverted political agenda, as teachers unions do now, they were just very “MEAN”.
You obviously didn’t go to a Catholic Elementary school in the 50’s.
Thai Nuns... they loved us tho’
I’ll never forget one Sunday morning, a kid was reprimanded by the nun, and was pouting, with his lower lip sticking out. She yelled at him “stick that lip back in before I cut it off with a scissors!”
I just went on Sundays.
My wife went Five days a week.
She’s got stories….
The nuns (in the 60’s) would make us pound the chalk out of the erasers if we misbehaved so we would show up at home covered in chalk dust. They knew that our dad would take care of any behavioral problems we might have had. They also included a smack with a paddle or pointing stick, too.
I'm a Christian and not anti-Catholic.
BTW, the nuns taught us to speed read (with comprehension tests), do math in our head, and how to write structured sentence/paragraphs/documents. Invaluable skills for my working life...
Never saw anything like these stories. The nuns were some of the nicest women ever.
The school I attended had
800 students
24 teacher nuns
One principal
One secretary
One part time nurse
2 custodians One of them also drove the bus the nuns used to get to
Work.
They were amazing
Hi.
Not that this post happened to me, but I heard that after they beat your knuckles, they beat your palms.
And, if they could get away with it, they would beat the bottom of your feet.
St. Cabrini, Scranton, PA.
Probably just a rumor.
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