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Here is a list of Punishments from November 1818
Mason Street School San Diego CA

# of Lashes listed after the offense.

• Boys and Girls Playing Together - 4
  
• Fighting at School - 5
  
• Quarreling at School - 5
  
• Gambling or Betting at School - 4
  
• Climbing for Every Foot Over Three Feet Up a Tree - 1
  
• Telling Lying - 7
  
• Telling Tales Out of School - 8
  
• Giving Each Other Ill Names - 3
  
• Swearing at School - 8
  
• For Misbehaving to Girls - 10
  
• For Drinking Spiritous Liquors at School - 8
  
• Playing Cards at School - 10
  
• Making Swings and Swinging on Them      - 7
  
• For Waring Long Finger Nails - 2
  
• Misbehaving to Persons on the Road - 4
  
• For Going to Girls Play Places - 3
  
• Girls Going to Boys Play Places - 3
  
• Coming to School With Dirty Faces and Hands - 2
  
• For Calling Each Other Liars - 4
  
• For Wrestling at School - 4
  
• For Wetting Each Other Washing at Playtime       - 2
  
• Scuffling at School - 4
  
• For Going and Playing about the Mill or Creek - 6
  
• For Going about the Barn or doing any Mischief about the Place - 7
  

And kids think they have it tough now.  :o

Too bad they don't put back some of those punishments today... and then the kids get the SAME when they get home.... like we did --- there's some GOOD to be said about the Good Old Days... 8-) 8-)

:-*

I think I went to that school. With BarbaraD and Dick Clark.
And Charlie.    ;)

BobG wrote on Aug 14^th, 2009 at 10:44pm:

I think I went to that school. With BarbaraD and Dick Clark. And Charlie.    ;)

Can't be. Spiritous liquors had not yet been invented when Charlie went to school.

Brew wrote on Aug 14^th, 2009 at 10:58pm:

BobG wrote on Aug 14th, 2009 at 10:44pm: I think I went to that school. With BarbaraD and Dick Clark. And Charlie.    ;) Can't be. Spiritous liquors had not yet been invented when Charlie went to school.

Wanna bet???  WE called it "moonshine" back in them thar dayz... ;D

Tiannia wrote on Aug 14^th, 2009 at 6:56pm:

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In 1818, San Diego was part of Mexico.

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   Pizza, approaching lethal weapon status, can no longer be used to beat your kids with.

Mike

P.S. It's Fox news, so obviously it can't be true.  [smiley=wink.gif]

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Can't be. Spiritous liquors had not yet been invented when Charlie went to school.

Larry King and I learned how to make it from our 6th grade teacher

Charlie (Don't play cards in school!)

I didn't think yeast existed back then.

Our senior project in Chemistry -- we made a still and ran off a pint of moonshine..... of course the TEACHER confiscated our BREW (to test it for us! yeah right) and pronounced it fit to drink.... (he NEVER knew how much we absconded with before he confiscated the "rest" of the batch!!! ::) and WE never told him! - got an A on the project!)...

Then there was that brick of sulphur... well the fire dept had a fun day with that after we found out you don't spray it with water.... especially outside -- it sorta sprays all over the side of the schoolhouse... makes a LOT of noise...

But back in those days -- we had to MAKE our FUN....

:-*

Gee an people wonder why I am so mean as to say sometimes kids really do need spanked to get their attention. And they need their attention got when they run in front of cars on a busy road or play with the oven!!!! I am not an advocate of beating children but in Denmark I am very unpopular with my ideas of a swat or two on the behind for attention getting. And the death penalty for horrible criminals.... OMG I had to stop saying I was pro choice here because they were gonna try it on me! Gee guess the good old days when you could make your kids behave are over and now they rob old people, car jack you, steal your rent money to buy drugs and you cant even swat them on the butt. How annoying!

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Our senior project in Chemistry -- we made a still and ran off a pint of moonshine..... of course the TEACHER confiscated our BREW (to test it for us! yeah right) and pronounced it fit to drink

Then of course there's the easy way....Do what gramps did: Get a barrel of cider, through in bunch of sugar and wait.

Charlie

Yeah, Charlie, but ya gotta admit - it kept us "out of mischief" (for a while at least).  :-/