Did you ever have to write lines at school?
If so, did you used to pull off the old method of dealing with one word at a time? You would write each word in vertical columns, because it was 'a lot quicker'.
Our teachers didn't like us doing it, and we were made to do them again. Why should we though? After all, we were still writing the same amount of words.
Did anyone else have to do lines?
yeah
one teacher made us do a 4 page essay every time we misbehaved and then doubled it if we mucked about in the same lesson.
my finest moment of genius was doing a four page essay on scribbles in which i did four very fine examples of what a scribble is.
No
Because I was capable of behaving
i did lines once.
and i used two pens.
^ clever
Yes
Also, a prefect made me write the school rules once because I wouldn't put my tie on.
And one time
I was writing lines and the words started to etch into my skin. It was painful
My school had a card system
Which increased in severity: Pink, Yellow, White, Grey
A pink card was a warning. Three pink cards and you got a yellow card, which was a lunchtime detention. Three yellows you got a white, which was after-school detention. Three whites and you got a grey card, which was suspension.
Of course, nobody ever actually *saw* a grey card. We just heard about them...
The thing is, this system was designed to give teachers a visable deterrent against bad behaviour, but only the bad teachers needed to use them, and then they tended to only go for the pinks and keep dishing them out. Some kids got upwards of a dozen pink cards a week without anyone noticing or caring.
What a waste of paper
Hugely so
And like ASBOs they pretty much became a badge of honour.
Did the pupils get to keep them?
It wuold actually to fun to keep them and show the grandchildren what a naughty boy you were.
Yep
I know guys who have piles of them still.
Lots of teachers left their desks unlocked, though, so there were a lot of forgeries around.
I would've stolen a grey card and given myself a suspension
Only the headmaster had those
And, like I said, they were just as much myth as reality. The threat was always there, but we never actually risked enough to find out the truth...
Once a teacher made me write an essay
on why another teacher shouldn't have kids messing around in his lesson.
I put reasons like "He supports Darlington and that's enough grief for anyone."
Other detentions with the same teacher were spent watching Going For Gold.
yellow slips
for not having your shirt tucked in. My school almost suspended me for this.
Apart from that I only ever got one detention. and the teacher didnt turn up for it.
Yes, once for forging my dad's signature
in my stupid homework diary.
We had to
copy out vast incomprehensible chunks of latin and greek in detention. Copying stuff out is a lot more tedious when you don't know the language you are copying from
I did lines on computer, once
and it was totally accepted by the useless technophobe partially-trained substitute teacher from overseas
quality education.
i think nabout 70% of school was lines for me.
I used to counter this by taping three pens together, which providing you got your angles right did actually work.
i was bent over the desk and spanked for being cheeky
no wait, that was in my head
no wiat that was in my bed!
If the spelling was better
that would've been a great reply
i don't care, it happened, ergo, i win!
Now wait! that's in my head.
:|
i never had a detention.
or anything really! i was well behaved.