Public schools maybe, but this is a Catholic school.
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Apparently VERY few of the responders on this thread have enjoyed the ‘Nun Treatment’ of the 40s and 50s and earlier OR the small town atmosphere of the day that if a kid was acting up an ‘adult’ made sure he and the story got home to the CARING parents.
Police didn’t get called because a kid ‘farted’ in class and if a get ‘acted up’ it was dealt with (MOST of the time twice or a third time as if one ‘complained’, they got it again THEN ‘Sister’ was called THEN ‘Sister’ admonished you the following day about ‘carrying tales home from school’.
I seem to remember back in the Draft days the ‘volunteer’ services Marines & Navy in particular enjoyed getting the grads of Catholic School in their boot camps because we had already basically had the ‘wise guy snot’ removed.<: <: <:
Actually my belief that religious Brothers were MUCH tougher than Nuns dreamed of being was confirmed on day one as a freshman in St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn in Sept 1960.
I watched as a lay teacher punched one kid and throw an eraser the length of the room directly into the mouth of another kid. I looked around and took a mental score card of who was scared and who was not. Every one that was scared had nuns in grade school or went to public school. The 8 of us out of 30 that were taught by Brothers who smacks us and paddled us were the ones not scared because we’d seen it all before. Nuns “tougher than Brothers?” Not so much.