Last Updated on 2022-04-27 , 8:16 pm
Ahhhh… the secondary school days. A period of “rebellion” and thinking we are cool when in fact we are just nasty, ugly, uncontrollable teenage freaks.
Maybe we are still nasty ugly and uncontrollable now, but that’s not the point.
Our school seems to always fail to come to terms with the fact that we are teenagers, and will always have these punishments for those who toed the line.
But of course, they can’t do this now: mete any of these punishments and the teacher would most likely have to prepare a resignation letter #justsaying
Detention
Many afternoons were spent sitting at a very obvious spot in front of the staffroom with the discipline master’s eyes constantly staring at us with a very thick sense of disgust and contempt. Like we’re a cat who brought home something foul from the darkest parts of the sewage. For the naughtier kids, this spot has been our “second home”, the place we report to punctually every day after class.
Suspension
Like detention, but worst, and much longer. The suspension leaves a permanent record in your conduct records. And it is terrifyingly boring; you really just sit at a place for the whole damned day.
Reflection letter
The worst shit a teacher can give to a student. Because we never know what to write, and whatever we write will be unsatisfying to the teacher. Usually, we’ll be told to rewrite so many times, the letters can be published into a book.
Caning
We get caned for the more serious offences, and we get threatened with caning for the minor cases. Then once in a blue moon some poor soul will be caned with a huge rattan in front of the whole school. However, it only applies to boys. How unfair!
Shaming
Every morning the discipline master will walk onto the stage with a list of names to be called and the offenders will be lined up in front of their school and their offences will be read out to the school. The “offences” range from something as trivial as inappropriate hairstyle to something as serious as underage smoking.
Cutting your hair
Again, this is only for boys because they are not given the option to pin their hair and also because the whole world will go batshit crazy if anyone dares to put a pair of scissors anywhere near a girls hair. For boys who have outlandish hairstyles (by the school’s standards), the discipline master will go as far as cutting the boy’s hair himself, thereby ruining any sense of style the boy is looking to achieve.
Confiscating
The teachers love to confiscate student’s stuff. From handphones to basketballs. And we hate them for it.
Ruler hits
For the older people, they would have memories of teachers hitting the student’s knuckles with a wooden ruler and that is so bloody painful we just want to curl up and cry. But we have to thank them because we have developed a pair of steel knuckles with the capability to bust anyone’s skull. Thank you, teachers!
Standing outside classroom
Many of our funniest memories in secondary school comes from being sent out of class for failing to do homework. And for some of us, it is a daily occurrence. And everyone will have failed to do their homework at least once. So the “veterans” will always make fun of the tearing “newbies” who have been sent out of class for the first time for not doing homework.
Staying back for recess
Detention? Caning? Sent out of class? Nothing is as foul or despicable as making a student stay in class for recess to complete his homework or to do his spelling corrections. NOTHING. The 30 minutes of play time is of utmost importance to a student and should never be touched. And the teachers know it, and they use this point to make us listen to their every demand. How despicable!
Here’s a simplified summary of the South Korea martial law that even a 5-year-old would understand:
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