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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I don't think you are 10 years older than me (at most) and I've gathered that we grew up in the same neighborhood. I went to public school, possibly even the same schools you attended.
What you describe sounds like a completely different world/education system than the one I went through.
"The strap" was a vague threat that only kids talked about and nobody I knew ever saw it, let alone got hit with it. No teacher ever threw anything at a kid. We got called out for chewing gum and had to get rid of it but that was about it. There was no grabbing ears any of that.
I was no angel, and got hollered at and spent more than my share of time in the Principal's office or banished from class to sit like an idiot in the hallway, but damn, it sounds like you went to the same school Charles Dickens went to.
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The harsher strap stuff, took place in a Catholic school in a small town run by the sisters when I had to go there when our house burnt down (I didn't do it), also the grabbing by the ears etc all sisters. Also I went to that school writing left handed and left trying to write right handed, because the devil resides in the left hand.
The chewing gum, the teacher with the hypersonic arm, the principal and the parent teacher conferences all took place in the Calgary public system