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The teachers were very,very
strict in colonial times. If children didn't behave in school, the
schoolmaster would whip them with a birch branch. Almost every schoolmaster
kept a branch handy. If
the students didn't know their lessons they would be called a "dunce",
which means stupid. They would
have to sit on a dunce stool and wear a coneshaped hat called a dunce cap.
Sometimes they had
to wear leather eyeglass frames, which meant they didn't have their
lessons done. If a student was
caught biting their fingernails, they would have to wear a big card that
read, "Bitefinger Baby". If you
didn't listen and pay attention to the teacher you were called "Idle Boy"
and had to wear a card around
your neck. You weren't allowed to whisper to your friends in class.
If you did, you had to wear a
wooden whispering stick in your mouth. Sometimes
you would find a schoolmaster who was very cruel. If he felt you
needed to be punished, he
would make you go find a small branch, he would cut a slit in one end and
make you wear it on the end
of your nose. Being a kid in colonial times was difficult.
Times sure have changed. |
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