I graduated from high in 1984, and I still have nightmares if I visit a school for any reason.
I graduated from high in 1984, and I still have nightmares if I visit a school for any reason.
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I attended a large Catholic high school in Philadelphia. ( about 3,000 students) I was never afraid of the other students but I was terrified of the nuns.
After lunch, we were “allowed” to use the restrooms. There were always nuns in there ( with their little “crickets” in their hands). I wondered about this when I was kid. Why would they have the nuns in the restroom? I now know why? They were there to protect us from the other students.
Ditto for the gym locker rooms!
One more thing: If a nun or teacher stepped on to a stair, ALL the students cleared the stairs and the nun used the stair **alone**! I now see that this custom had two purposes: 1) the safety of the nun 2) it instilled respect for her in the students.