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I Was Given Lines At School

Detention was combined with lines so that you could not use the detention time productively in any way whatever. Instead of lines that could be repeated, you were asked (really, required) to copy symbol for symbol dictionary pages. Phonetic symbols were the hardest. I didn't learn anything during detention. It just was unpleasant and embarrassing. Probably "worked" as a substitute for something more physically painful like running laps or licks with a paddle and definitely strokes with a cane.

There was no attempt whatever to make it morally educational or a positive experience in any way. Just judicially administered unpleasant moments.

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damselfly · 100+, F

You have to marvel at the thinking that goes into these punishments though, don't you?

Alfred22

@damselfly Absolutely! Incredibly clever and it generated an ineradicable century-long memory of Mr. T., supervisor of that Friday afternoon session.

damselfly · 100+, F

@Alfred22 and I bet that thinking over the utter vacuousness of it all has turned you into one of them bloody intellectual libtards, hasn't it?

Alfred22

@damselfly OMG THAT must have done it. Thanks so much. I failed to put two and three together. I didn't get it until just now. How can I ever repay you? Do you take Euros? Until this revelation they are all I carry.