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Were DUNCE caps a real thing back in the day in your one-room schools?


Only see them on Little Rascals reruns.

NO caps.

but the nuns did put us in the corner


some of us got to go there alot


if really bad, one might get to go to the nunnery to eat their sack lunch and no play on the playground.

And the normal assigned 10 Hail Mary and 10 Our Fathers.

but no dunce hats.

They would put you in the corner, but caps were gone by the late 50s.

a lot is two words by the way. 😂

Maybe you needed more time in the corner.

alot isnot twowords theway Itype

In South Louisiana public and private school we had to kneel on rice, talk about torture.

My knees were well calloused by the fourth grade.

Never been to a one-room school. Saw kids hit, whacked, paddled and whatnot by teachers and admin. Had to stand in the corner before. Putting you out in the Hall was big. Later on Suspensions and sometimes Expulsion.

Had this fat cow of a teacher in Sophomore year. Nobody liked her. Some kid was f u c king with me and I dropped my pencil. I leaned over to get it and my desk/chair tipped and the guy pushed me on over. No big deal but it caused a ruckus and the teacher got enraged at me. Hell, it weren't my fault. The kid that did it was Valedictorian later and a teacher's pet though, so she targeted me even though this guy confessed that he'd done it. She told me to kneel by my desk. I told her I'd stand up if she wanted me to, but I wasn't kneeling. She was so mad at being disobeyed that she could spit. Her eyes were bulging out. She told me I was gonna kneel and I told her I'd just go on down to the Principal's office. I gathered up my shixt and booked. Told the Principal what happened. He was a loser and liked this c u nt, but also knew the score and just told me to work in his office 'til next period. Everybody laughed about it later, said she was fit to be tied and didn't know wtf to do when I just left.

You seen his error eh?

I see'd em

There's already a Boomer thread for Gen X to do their chucklehead routine in.

No, never.

It was an “automatic F” from Mrs Peggy F’s English class.

80 year old hag

She’d quirt you with the overhead projector cleaner if you dozed off in there. 🤪

I’m not a boomer but when I was in school it was not uncommon for a male teacher to punch the snot out of a disrespectful student. I watched a few friends get their dunce caps knocked off several times. I also know that after getting beaten by a teacher the last thing a student would do is tell their parents because they’d get beat all over again.

Now a teacher can’t even yell at a student without repercussions. The times have changed and not for the better.

No caps either but their were common options:

1. face a doorway and bend over to be hit full swing with those large wooden T Squares resulting in you landing face first in the outer corridor
2. sliced across the back of the fingers with the sharp edge of a 15" ruler
3. Caned across the open hand or wrist if a bad shot, using solid cane with the ends burned to prevent splitting - 2 for minor issues, 4 because the teacher loved the power or 6 which was maximum by school regs. (Heard of student canned 6 times and marched around the building and canned another 6) Even had a metalwork teacher once, short stumpy bloke who stood on a chair or stool and jumped off to maximize the power of the stroke when caning.

If your hair touched your collar you were suspended until it was cut. This was basis high school.
It was called discipline and the alternative was always pain. But it did teach me that people in charge were not always right or honourable.

I got my hind end paddled for playing magical mind bender of spoons in the lunch room.

Shop teacher in junior high would make paddles, the kind with the holes in them, that hung in teacher's rooms. Usually only took one whack to see the light. On my first day of high school some greaser lipped off to the teacher, the dean of boys came in, grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out of the room. From that point you could hear him being smashed into lockers and begging for the dean to stop. He was a good kid from then on.

Ku Klux Klan?

I ain't no boomer, but I got the cuts (cane - 6 of the best accross my arse) for trying to get some boom/boom in grade 8 !

Bingo.

and the spelling police (the American variety) will be along shortly to tell you there is no "u" in honorable. (It's even underlined in red on my screen)

Don't worry, it happens alot with our Canuck friends too.

Ha!

I learnt to type on a ol' Remington tiepriter.

alot happens a lot on these here newfangled electrisical machines.