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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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smiler2012 · 61-69

alfred22 yes most of our generation have been in that boat to was just the sign of the times teachers ruled kids today do not know how lucky they are now the do gooders and busy bodies got corporal punishment banned

MaryJanine · 70-79, F

@smiler2012 There are some teachers who think the rules don't apply to them. I saw a grown woman kick a kindergartner in her bottom because she didn't get up from the books on the library shelf fast enough to suit her. I saw teachers grab kids by the hair (when I was a little kid and later as an adult on the nightly news) with the kid on the ground screaming and crying for all he/she was worth. And this was PUBLIC SCHOOL in Chicago, where "corporal punishment" was "banned". Such punishment was illegal when I went to public school, and most parents of my classmates wouldn't stand for their child or children being manhandled like that. My mother raised four children, and she had to go to school at least once during our grammar school careers for each of us, but she had enough spunk in her to say, "If he or she lays ONE HAND on my son or daughter, I'll have their rear end in jail!"

smiler2012 · 61-69

@MaryJanine oh i agree it has always sadly been the case where teachers over stepped the mark in disciplining kids