Suburban Chicago, 1964. This teacher was not one of my favorites. She was, however, better than the sister next door who was ruler-whacking happy.
(I am hard to see here. I sit third from right in the second row. You can see my eye glasses popping up over a dark-haired, classmate's head.)
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Ah, yes, nuns with rulers.
The Good Old Days.
Forty-nine kids in the same classroom? A baby-boom cram, indeed, and some justification for a reign of fear. Even in the public schools of that time, no students attempted sass or expected coddling. I remember perhaps one classmate in eight years who dared a Principal-worthy offense.
In retrospect, so many of my own teachers genuinely disliked both children and education, and surely longed for another career. Gender-discrimination in employment: a nifty way to suppress salaries, if you aren't picky about job performance or satisfaction.
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