Did you have to "Do Lines" as punishment at school?

oscash said:
Same here in Sydney in the 50's. Nuns had it in for us kids. Writing out 100 lines for homework "I must not talk in class "or "I must bring my gym shoes to school", if I forgot to bring them. Cuts across the hands, hurt like hell in the Wintertime., and they were from the order Sisters of Mercy.!!! what a joke.
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Sisters of Sadism seems more appropriate
 

Yes for small infractions we'd get 100 lines, (60's) but most of the time were belted with a leather tawse...

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What was used in the schools I attended for the first four levels of primary years.

A martinet (type of flat leather piece with a surface similar to sandpaper). I suffered this once, especially frustrating that I was in the receiving end when I wasn't the one responsible.

Thankfully, I repaid the one responsible with karma and interests in the 5th year. 😄😄😄.
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oscash said:
Same here in Sydney in the 50's. Nuns had it in for us kids. Writing out 100 lines for homework "I must not talk in class "or "I must bring my gym shoes to school", if I forgot to bring them. Cuts across the hands, hurt like hell in the Wintertime., and they were from the order Sisters of Mercy.!!! what a joke.eemed to be
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The Catholic school that I went to was brutal, yet creative. A one inch thick, eighteen inch long, leather strap was the instrument of discipline and it came out for the slightest reason. The creative "compliment" was that writing out "I must not............" was to be a waste of time, instead we were given a piece of poetry or Shakespeare or Chaucer or any of the classics, to write out a given number of times.

All these years later I can astound friends and others with a straight of the top of my head, Shakespeare quotation:
"Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my usances;
Still I have borne it with a patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe;
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog and spat upon my Jewish gaberdine and all for that which is my own."

That short narrative is the start of a famous speech by Shylock from the play: "The Merchant of Venice." Even after all these years I can remember asking my father about the style of the language that Shakespeare used. My Dad explained what antisemitism was and from that, what any sort of prejudice can do.
It was a lesson that I have always remembered, even though it was set as a punishment, it both served me well and triggered a life long love of The Bard.

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I don't recall being given lines to do but my youngest son did and this was in the 1980s. He obviously got them quite frequently and never did them as one of them was to write out 'I must remember to do my lines.' 😁
 
I was never punished by being given lines to do, but rather too much “busy work” of questionable value. I remember an elementary school teacher asking us to write numbers to 100 or “as far as we could.” I got bored with the assignment, and stopped at around sixty, turning my paper in.

The teacher looked at my paper, and said she was disappointed because she thought I was “one of the ones” that would make it to 100. So I took my paper back, and finished writing the damn numbers to 100…. 😾
 
Fyrefox said:
I was never punished by being given lines to do, but rather too much “busy work” of questionable value. I remember an elementary school teacher asking us to write numbers to 100 or “as far as we could.” I got bored with the assignment, and stopped at around sixty, turning my paper in.

The teacher looked at my paper, and said she was disappointed because she thought I was “one of the ones” that would make it to 100. So I took my paper back, and finished writing the damn numbers to 100…. 😾
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that was your first manipulator....:LOL:
 
At school, writing lines such as: "I must not........" repeatedly was deemed unproductive and a complete waste of time. The leather strap was the first call rather than the last, but we did have a progressive English teacher. Punishment would be to write out a quotation from Shakespeare, three times. To this day I can quote the monologue of Shylock, the money lender in The Merchant of Venice.
 

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