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Child of the '60s here.
It's real; I lived it. Grade school, it was nuns. Beaten up by priests (as well as most of the other teachers) in high school.

That was a real and common thing, not even just in catholic schools.

Dude, the nuns at my dad's elementary school beat him and traumatized him so much that he has PTSD.

Its pure evil to abuse a child. No surprise that agents of the church took no issue with such evil behaviour.

During the 80s there was a big push to not abuse children, but before that, it was very common.

It is real. My mother went to an all girls catholic school. She said the wrong answers as well as bad behavior warranted being whacked with a ruler. Things were even worse if you are sinister.

Yes, they beat my grandfather for trying to be left-handed

My mother told me a story about how once my uncle was in school and the teacher told him to go out and cut a switch, which is just a thin stick good for whipping with. He cried, went out and got one, came back, and it turned out it was for someone else. This would have been the 60s or 70s maybe. My mom also mentioned that the typing (typewriter) teacher would smack fingers with a ruler when mistakes were made. This was a public school.

So yea, definitely a real thing that happened.

Oh yeah, a lot of old Catholics are terrified of nuns for that reason. It was always fun to shock them by saying how my school's nun was nice. The nuns especially targeted the sin of left handedness

I don't know about now, but when my parents were in school it was definitely very common. There is still no law against corporal punishment in private schools in the US, and only 33 out of 50 states have laws against it in their public schools.

I went to various Christian schools and had one teacher bend me over her knee and paddle me. But I was already taller/bigger than her. So ironic that I ended up liking short women and spanking. Like, what are the odds!?

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.

When I was in elementary school in the 70s in rural Virginia the teachers would hit you with rulers all the time. The principal had a paddle that resembled a cricket bat that he used.

I don't know if schools allow corporal punishment still.

Me friend recently told me she was caned (rapped with a ruler to be more specific) on the back of her hand for writing on the chalkboard with her left hand.

1989 Anglican Sunday school in rural Canada. They never went back, and apparently the place was shutdown not too much later.

In El Salvador, the nuns were way more hardcore than just using a ruler.

Once one made my dad kneel on raw rice while holding up books for half an hour.

My mom has to do something similar too but with salt outside in the sun, but for a bit less time.

Catholic schools in the 80's did not have corporal punishment (certainly not the one I attended for a few years). I think that was something from an earlier time period.

We lived in a small town suburb of Memphis in Mississippi in the 1980’s. I’d heard about what some of the Sisters did to students from friends that weren’t southern baptists. I proceeded to call them out at the Mall. I was young and have no idea if those nuns were even associated with the Catholic school I’d heard horror stories from. My mom was so apologetic. This husky & tall for his age ten year old ginger headed Martin Luther of my own design delivered my own Theses. I felt badass. My mother wanted to strangle me. Forty plus years later she shares it as the funniest thing I ever did as a child.

Reading all the comments here and then having to deal again with religious assholes who keep claiming that God gis good, god is kind, my imaginary god is everything that I am not

Fuck your imaginary stone age religion. Religion is a mental illness