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Discipline in an Old West one room Schoolhouse
Like the teachers of today, pioneer teachers had to contend with an age old educational issue - school discipline. However, unlike today, in the days of the old west educators had a lot more leeway to enforce their own brand of discipline. Teachers on the frontier had a much freer hand in dealing with infractions, and the rules were much stricter. In the one room schoolhouses of the late 1800's the consequences for discipline infractions where often immediate and much more severe by today's standards. Corporal punishment - inflicted by both male and female teachers - was not uncommon. Rulers and hickory switches which could cut through both clothing and flesh were liberally applied to ill-behaved students as a school discipline measure. Take a look at these Common schoolhouse crimes and punishments: 3 lashes - for disrupting the class
4 lashes - for being late
4 lashes - for boys & girls playing together
6 lashes - for "sassing the teacher"
7 lashes - for telling lies
8 lashes - for swearing
10 lashes - for "misbehaving to girls"
10 lashes - for playing cards during recess The old picture of a child sitting in the corner with a "dunce cap" on their head was in fact actually used by some frontier teachers as a school discipline measure. However it was reserved mostly for minor infractions such as 'not reciting lessons correctly', or 'interrupting the teacher'. Discipline procedures in the one room schoolhouses of our great-grand parents would have many of today's parents talking to their lawyers and almost all public school students in revolt. |
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