I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Dude, the nuns at my dad’s elementary school beat him and traumatized him so much that he has PTSD.

  Its pure evil to abuse a child. No surprise that agents of the church took no issue with such evil behaviour.

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Child of the '60s here.
  It’s real; I lived it. Grade school, it was nuns. Beaten up by priests (as well as most of the other teachers) in high school.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, that was a real and common thing, not even just in catholic schools.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    There are still some southern states (because ofc) that legally allow teachers to use corporal punishment at their discretion.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, my kindergarten teacher didn’t like me using my left hand to write for some reason, so slapped my hand with a ruler. Now I write with my right hand.

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  • FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  During the 80s there was a big push to not abuse children, but before that, it was very common.

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My mother told me a story about how once my uncle was in school and the teacher told him to go out and cut a switch, which is just a thin stick good for whipping with. He cried, went out and got one, came back, and it turned out it was for someone else. This would have been the 60s or 70s maybe. My mom also mentioned that the typing (typewriter) teacher would smack fingers with a ruler when mistakes were made. This was a public school.

  So yea, definitely a real thing that happened.

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• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, they beat my grandfather for trying to be left-handed

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• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is real. My mother went to an all girls catholic school. She said the wrong answers as well as bad behavior warranted being whacked with a ruler. Things were even worse if you are sinister.

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• m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Me friend recently told me she was caned (rapped with a ruler to be more specific) on the back of her hand for writing on the chalkboard with her left hand.

  1989 Anglican Sunday school in rural Canada. They never went back.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    plus all that buggery. Nuns absolutely creeped me out, I have never met one that wasn’t mean and miserable.

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• AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know about now, but when my parents were in school it was definitely very common. There is still no law against corporal punishment in private schools in the US, and only 33 out of 50 states have laws against it in their public schools.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I went to various Christian schools and had one teacher bend me over her knee and paddle me. But I was already taller/bigger than her. So ironic that I ended up liking short women and sspanking. Like, what are the odds!?

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I was in elementary school in the 70s in rural Virginia the teachers would hit you with rulers all the time. The principal had a paddle that resembled a cricket bat that he used.

  I don’t know if schools allow corporal punishment still.

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• Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Catholic schools in the 80’s did not have corporal punishment (certainly not the one I attended for a few years). I think that was something from an earlier time period.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    the forced sodomy of boys continued.

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  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in my country, corporal punishment in school was abolished by law in 2004. i did elementary in the 80s, but the strap was not used that i can recall. kids were threatened with it, but i don’t think anyone got smacked. however, many people of my parents’ generation have told me that the strap was extremely common. my father in law used to get strapped for speaking german at school, among other things (saskatchewan, 50s / 60s).

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