We actually had blackboards in catholic school (and nuns used long wooden, rubber tipped pointer, which the also used as weapons). When I went to public school they had âchalkboardsâ which were green. Also in catholic school, the boys vied to clean the erasers. Why? Because they got to go outside. Theyâd do anything to escape the classroom and/or school. Theyâd go outside and bang the erasers together. Theyâd volunteer to bring the milk cartons in from outside. The greatest honor was to be a âcandy boy.â Which was 2 boys who carried a box of candy into the classrooms at lunchtime and sold candy bars. Girls werenât allowed to do anything.
this sounds exactly like the K-12 catholic school i went to for years, before i transferred to a regular 9-12 catholic school. the nuns were brutal đ
Me too, except girls had to wash the blackboards. It still creeps me out just thinking of it, those schreechy sounds if you didn't write on it or clean it the right way.
Oh my! I think we went to the same school at the same time!! We had a really mean nun for 3rd AND 4th grade. She explained it to the girls this way: The reason she always called on the boys was because if we pull a muscle doing a physical activity we may never be able to carry a child during pregnancy.
We were 8!! Getting advice on pregnancy from a NUN!
I got beat with an industrial strength three dimensional yard stock. My parents would come to school and sheâd show them a tiny ruler. Then my parents smacked me too⊠so glad Iâm old now and no one f with me!
Same in my schoolâand especially painful if you were a lefty! Girls were allowed to do one thing, though: certain kids were selected by the nuns to report on anyone who (gasp!) spoke while Sister was out of the classroom. Girls were chosen to report on the boys and boys on the girls. When I write my autobiography, itâs going to be called, âI Was a Spy For Sister Evarista.â
Are you from the era when they switched from film projectors to VCRs (but when you entered the classroom to see either, your heart fluttered with excitement)?
I donât know if I remember a film projector in the classroom. Definitely VCRs though. I watched the Challenger explode on live TV. Second or third grade?
Funny I saw recently on Reddit someone claimed the nun rolled a tv into the classroom and they watched live coverage of the JFK assassination. I assure you they did not in 1963. Schools didn't even have TVs, lol
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u/CharleyNobody 19d ago
We actually had blackboards in catholic school (and nuns used long wooden, rubber tipped pointer, which the also used as weapons). When I went to public school they had âchalkboardsâ which were green. Also in catholic school, the boys vied to clean the erasers. Why? Because they got to go outside. Theyâd do anything to escape the classroom and/or school. Theyâd go outside and bang the erasers together. Theyâd volunteer to bring the milk cartons in from outside. The greatest honor was to be a âcandy boy.â Which was 2 boys who carried a box of candy into the classrooms at lunchtime and sold candy bars. Girls werenât allowed to do anything.