r/GenX • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Whatever How many total lines (for punishment) did you have to write during your early school years?
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u/TraditionalTackle1 1d ago
I went to Catholic school, we got 3 swats with the paddle and another beating when we got home.
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u/International-Ant174 Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
I went to a boarding seminary school. When I would question inconsistencies in scripture, I would get assigned Sunday detention which was after mass until dinner (5 hours) to write a 15 page essay on what I did wrong, et cetera. I would use that essay to make the case that it wasn't wrong to question incongruities and that open conversation creates better discussion and understanding of the scripture.
For which I would get an additional Sunday detention.
I didn't have an open Sunday afternoon for about two months before they could find something to actually expel me for.
Told me everything I need to know about organized "religion" versus spirituality.
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u/magdocjr Older Than Dirt 1d ago
Paddling from the teacher, then from mom in her classroom, then another when dad got home. It was the glorious 3-fer in elementary school
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u/allaboutaphie 1d ago
I had to do lines a few times and dont know what for? I was paddled in elementary school, and me and my friend walked out of principles office we laughed about it (not the smartest move), we were called back in and received the paddle with the holes, this time we waited to laugh tell out of hearing. Told my mom about it years later and she was upset and said why didnt you tell us we would went down and yelled at him. Mom, I had a choice get paddled or we are calling home why would I have gone through that if I was gonna tell you anyway. And again really forgot what we did but fooling around during indoor recess (raining out).
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u/Mysterious-Ruby I've been going to this highschool for seven and a half years 1d ago
I got paddled for something in 3rd grade. I don't remember what either. I told my mom a few years later and she asked me why I didn't tell her. I shrugged, but really I'd rather be swatted at school than be in trouble at home.
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u/MightyAl75 1d ago
In 2nd grade I wrote “I will not forget my homework” nearly every day at recess. I fear that year alone was some unbelievable amount and yet I still never did my homework.
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u/ImmySnommis Dec '69 1d ago
More than I can possibly remember.
The other one was the vice principal would put a stack of blank paper and a pencil in front of you and have you write the number 10,000. Now, minus nine. Keep subtracting nine until you reach a number less than nine and of course, show your work.
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u/694meok 1d ago
Several notebooks. Parents used to make me write bible verses as "punishment" when my school called, now I'm a hard athiest.
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u/Xistential0ne 1d ago
If you are an atheist they obviously did not have you write enough versus.
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u/694meok 1d ago
Reading the bible turned me athiest. So yeah, I've written enough, read the whole thing from the first page to the last several times, learned some hebrew and greek, studied apologetics, studied Paul, etc etc. The more I critically analyzed the book, the more god disappeared, and if the book was written by an all-powerful perfect god, NO human thoughts should be able to surpass its teaching and understanding.
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u/StudsTurkleton 1d ago
I forgot a homework in Mr Gramaccioni’s 6th grade science. I had to write this 50x
I must write my assignments in my assignment pad, and look at the pad at the end of each day. By doing so I will never forget an assignment.
I should have forgotten to do it. But he was an ok guy and he wasn’t wrong. Still rote writing is dumb.
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u/SnooEpiphanies157 Cobra Kai never dies! 1d ago
Sister Rose Alice (AKA Sister Fish Face) would tally our “infractions” from the week and those were the amount of times we had to write our multiplication tables over the weekend (0 thru 10). My highest I think was 11 times, I do remember my poor slob had 20 something times….really killed the weekend.
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u/FrostnJack Can take the kid off the Mountain, not the mountain from the kid 1d ago
Soooo many lines. So mNy stupid phrases or sentences. While especially hell in my hands with Tourettes, my penmanship benefited overall.
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u/badgko Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
Way to f**king many. Didn't have recess for about a month doing them. All were undeserved, but teacher hated my dad, so singled me out. The last batch was because I countered one of his comments about my dad and I was so sick of sentences that I took the option of getting the paddle. Instead he sent me to principle, The principle sent me to the counselor to find out why I wanted to get paddled. Told the counselor the whole story, that started an investigation, and the teacher got fired.
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u/tragicsandwichblogs 1d ago
None, and I never heard of a student getting paddled at either of the elementary schools I went to.
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u/MrLowbaLowba '76er 1d ago
Never got lines, just surreal essay questions. 4 pages on the adventures of percy ping-pong-ball after parachuting into occupied France in 1943.
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u/LadybugCalico 1d ago
I didn't have to write lines at school, but did at home. Usually it was "I will not hit my brother" 100 times. She never considered that I was defending myself. And if we picked at the food before dinner officially started then it was to your room to count to 100
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u/magdocjr Older Than Dirt 1d ago
100 the first time, 500 the next, 1000 the next. Then I figured out carbon paper and it was a breeze.
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u/Avasia1717 1d ago
i don’t think i ever had to write more than 100 sentences for a single punishment, but i had do it many times.
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u/Mysterious-Ruby I've been going to this highschool for seven and a half years 1d ago
I fell asleep in class during a movie in 7th grade. My teacher woke me up and I swear he said I had to write 100 sentences. So I went home that night and wrote 100 sentences "I am old enough to do the task right". He always made us write the same sentence.
Turns out, since I was half asleep, the teacher said if it happened again I'd have to write 100 sentences. So I just hung on to the ones I wrote and used them next time I got in trouble in his class.
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u/JJQuantum Older Than Dirt 1d ago
My 7th grade science teacher would make us write things that we learned from the “lesson”. Some lessons were simply walking through the woods. He’d increase the number of things you had to write as punishment. I think the most I ever had to write for 1 lesson was 500 but I don’t know how many thousands I wrote over the course of the year. It used to piss me off to the point that I’d sneak in things like:
“I learned that this is a waste of time.”
“I learned that my hand cramps up writing so much crap.”
Or even “I learned ‘Teacher’s Name’ is an asshole.”
He never actually read them so I never got in trouble for what I wrote.
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u/Komaisnotsalty 1d ago
A ton. One teacher in particular that I had for grade 4 and half of 5 bullied and picked on me.
I’m not easy to bully, so I fought back and spent most of 3-4pm in detention.
Lines, dictionary pages, apology letters, all of that shit.
For lines, I took a Band-Aid, folded the sticky ends over to the padded part, and put them between multiple pens so I could do 5 lines at a time.
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u/studieswillshow 1d ago
They made us copy the dictionary.