In our rural community, we didn’t have phones till the early sixties.Only one or two mothers in the whole community worked. Most families had only one car, so women were most likely home unless they walked to a near neighbor’s home for coffee accompanied by their infants and toddlers. The point of this story is, when we got in trouble at school, the news often beat us home. I don’t know how, but Mother invariably knew what I’d gotten in trouble for.
I suspect my older sister may have ratted me out, or the teacher sent a sneaky note home by her, but news always got home. A few times, my mother heard through the grapevine. It was certainly a different day and time. Should my offense be minor, Mother took care of the problem, but if it were a matter heinous enough to warrant a note or invitation to a conference at school, I had to deal with Daddy. That was never nice. It would have been so much happier for me if my parents had held the teacher’s attitude or methods responsible, but alas, the judgment came right back to me.
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You had a hard row to hoe.
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Not a lot of mercy at our house. The good news. I got out early. I was motivated to get an education. I married a a good man and never beat my kids.
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I can truly say that my parents were totally willing to stick up for me, and that corporal punishment was kept to a nonhumiliating minimum, and abolished completely after the age of five.
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You were fortunate. Both my parents believed in a “good whipping.”
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In that way I was, indeed, fortunate.
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Yeah bad news travels fast and that old grapevine it could spread gossip so fast
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I recall those days with no fondness whatsoever. My parents took the attitude that the teacher was always right, and never once entertained the notion that I might have been accused unjustly, or that the offense in question was so minor that it really didn’t warrant corporal punishment, or that having been punished and humiliated at school, I really didn’t need to be punished and humiliated again at home.
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Oh, we were warned. A spanking at school assured another at home. Anybody who beats their kids does it because they like it.
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Aye it does! :D
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