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I was no bully, but I was caned frequently at school for various other offences. It had zero impact. I saw having to go and queue at the headmaster’s study in
by madaxe_again 5mo ago
I was no bully, but I was caned frequently at school for various other offences.
It had zero impact. I saw having to go and queue at the headmaster’s study in the morning for six of the best as a cost of doing business. Short, sharp, sore palms for the morning, over and done with.
Now, satisfecit was much more of a threat - having to report every half hour all day every day, having teachers report on every lesson, every meal, every everything, having to go to the head man every morning - was an absolute embuggerance.
Still, that said, the latter also didn’t make me change my ways - it just made me get better at not being caught.
- nephihaha 5mo agoWe called it a report card. That was a load of nonsense too. I quickly learnt how to forge signatures for it, and even getting the real signatures was a hassle... For the teachers who resented doing it themselves. Absolutely no benefit to it. We also got punished collectively for things we didn't do. Happened to me on many occasions and I'm still bitter about it. It never flushed out the perps as it was supposed to. I despise the notion of mass punishment for someone else's misdemeanours. Sounds like you went to the posh place. LOL. Either on a scholarship or family money.
- verve_rat 5mo agoCollective punishment is a war crime, I don't know why people think it would be effective on children? All it does is breed resistance and resentment, as you say.
- madaxe_again 5mo agoIt was de rigueur for us, but then again our housemaster was an Afrikaner. And no, it didn’t work, we’d just plot collective revenge on him, and collectively figure out how to escape the punishment.
- andsoitis 5mo ago> but then again our housemaster was an Afrikaner What are you saying?
- madaxe_again 5mo agoThat the apartheid regime and its proponents were not terribly nice people. Sorry if that’s a controversial stance these days.
- andsoitis 5mo agoStereotyping all Afrikaners with that brush is despicable.
- madaxe_again 5mo agoI’m sorry, calling Dutch colonists colonisers is despicable? Well, I suppose not just Dutch colonists, they did have their population bolstered by a lot of Austrians and Germans escaping war crime prosecution in the 40’s. Anyway. In the early 90’s, in the U.K.? They were coming over for one reason only. The Afrikaner masters were always racist, always fans of collective punishment and bizarre corporal punishments.
- andsoitis 5mo agoI will just say you lack basic knowledge of history of Afrikaners and South Africa in general and that, coupled with your prejudice on display, is a pretty ugly sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaners# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaners# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa#History
- aldrich 5mo agoI'm sure that person must've been a pretty bad one. But to tie Dutch colonialism, apartheid and WW2 war criminals (centuries later by the way) together this way to excuse these discriminatory remarks is pretty daft. Needless to say, not everyone was/is like that.
- roysting 5mo agoHave you ever thought about or identified what could have changed your ways, whatever those were that I presume were inconsiderate of others or even violations of people? Or was it more that you were pushing back against the industrialized human cog factory we call education in the west?
- madaxe_again 5mo agoMy violations were usually of the variety of having failed to polish my shoes, or being late for a lesson, or being on a roof, or getting in fights - I was never the instigator but was always seen as the troublemaker. So, what would have changed my mind? Fuck, some human kindness or compassion? Growing up in an inescapable institution, run by retired submariners and optimised for control, did not make for healthy balanced people.
- hirvi74 5mo agoI was a class clown type, but not a bully. > Have you ever thought about or identified what could have changed your ways An ADHD diagnosis and treatment.
- madaxe_again 5mo agoYeah, I got mine 30 years too late, too.