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Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers

swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.

So yeah, it happens.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I was changed from left- to right-handed by the Calgary school board in 1979 or so.

In secondary school my chem teacher would definitely throw chalk if you weren’t paying attention. It’s better than chalk brushes.

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- swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.
  
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