you know when you think of it.. these Nuns who are supposed to live in Fear of an Almighty God, can't really believe there IS a God , or they wouldn't be the Bar-stewards that ..not just some..but MANY of them are...
I agree with you. I saw nuns literally sucker punch children, older than I was but not more than 10 years of age. And not in the face, where it might have been seen but in the chest, where it's not likely to leave an obvious mark. My first grade teacher was a lay-person, not a nun but I remember her making a classmate, a boy of six years old, stand in front of the class for some kind of offense and made him pull his pants down, IN FULL VIEW OF OUR CLASS, then swat him several times with a yardstick. I was subjected to swattings in our class as a group many times but we were never made to disrobe.
How humiliating that was, not just for my classmate but also for all of us made to witness such a thing! As I say, my teacher was not a nun but behaviors such as these were tolerated by the nuns at that school it seems. My family moved at the midway point of the school year when I was in second grade and ever after I attended only public schools, for which I have no memories of bizarre punishments from any faculty there. Fellow students committed some atrocities that I witnessed but teachers and staff, none.
The catholic school system has been, in my opinion, broken for a long time. There have been many reports of school aged children being abused intimately and physically by clergy of both genders. Maybe it has something to do with repressed desires or maybe it's just being a part of such a powerful organization that these educators feel they have carte blanche to treat these children as they will. But clergy or not, the catholic school system needs to be overhauled and again that's just my personal opinion but I speak from my remembered experiences of being a student, 1961-1962. It left an impression.