Originally Posted by KuteNurse

Gypsy,

I have also heard the stories about Nuns treating children cruelly. My Mom was Catholic attending Catholic School. When she married my Dad, she became Lutheran, and later Presbyterian. My husband also attended Catholic school with better luck. His experience was having strictness taught by Nuns. I attended public school and I was treated poorly by teachers also. Once, a boy in grade school told the teacher I was making him laugh, when I was minding my own business. He wanted to get me into trouble because it was funny. I was terribly hurt when the teacher yelled at me being verbally abusive to me. I remember going home sobbing to my mom because I had done nothing wrong. Another teacher had us at her apartment to swim for a pool party. She told us (the students), sexually explicit details that we did not need to know at the age of 9. When I was in 6th grade, a male teacher, took boys out into the hall and hit their heads up against the coat hangers when they misbehaved in class.

My point is, I think it was how people behaved during that time. It is how teachers disciplined children with strictness and in some circumstances, abuse. From my experiences, I do not believe just the Nuns were cruel to their students, but some teachers from all different schools at that time. I am sure some of that still occurs to this day unfortunately, but I think from my experience since my son has been in school, that teacher's do teach with respect and not the harshness they used to teach with. I hope this makes sense to you and I hope things were not so bad for your mom. Have a nice night.