I'm very sure I've written a few posts about how quiet, shy and calm I was as a little girl until the world showed me how to be tough and overcome challenges making me less shy, more talk active and even troublesome. Well, I'm very happy I've become what I am today because I can still remember how people took advantage of my shyness and quietness back then, I wouldn't want it to repeat itself.
One of the instances happened to be the incident I'll share as a memorable punishment during my school days.
Image designed here
It might please you to know that I got away from a lot of punishment because of my nature in class, every report card showed that my teachers knew me to be the quiet one and always eager to learn that I'm very calm and attentive in class... No bragging here, I still wish in my mind that I didn't do too much of that back then 😏 it didn't pay as much as I thought it would but I'm grateful, it made me who I am today.
I could give a count of the number of times I was punished while I was in school and it isn't up to five times. I mean punishments like pick pin, raise your hands up till my class is over, squat under my table, ride a bicycle, pick the dirt in the school surrounding, clear the grasses and many other kinds, didn't get to me, but I know them very well as I watched many of my mates suffer for every one of them.
One punishment I was a victim of for up to five times is getting flogged for mostly what I didn't do... Noise making, talking during exams and one of them was exactly what happened in the incident of the most memorable punishment I had.
I was in class four, it was my first week in the new school so my teacher was yet to study all of us to know the quiet ones from the stubborn ones. That made her treat us as same and what made that class very memorable was the fact that she was a pregnant teacher 😩 she had this ease to get angry at every little mistake we made back then and one thing she hated more was noise especially when she is not teaching.
On my second day as a student in her class, I was so full of excitement as I was the first day, I had this calm and happy spirit within me as she taught us for that morning before break time. After break, we got into the class and were all seated ready for the next teaching. She was busy writing on the board when some students began to make noise, so loudly.
I was so sure it had nothing to do with me since I was quiet while they were being noisy, I could hear my new friend who sat close to me telling the others to keep shut but they seem to be serious about what they were discussing whatever it was. Our teacher turned around and gave warning, you needed to see how calm and sweet looking she was when she said that.
I bet that was why the students continued with the noise and that hour many have been dreading came... She announced that she will punish the whole class for noise making.
I immediately burst into tears when she punished the first line by my left because I was sitting at the first line on the right 🥲 she didn't care to look at anyone who was crying already, she just kept punishing them one after the other... What was the punishment? She was using a cane to flog the thighs of every student. Can you even imagine that? Try to picture it so you know why I couldn't stop crying before it got to my turn.
It was clear enough that I was going to get my own share when she punished the student next to me but surprisingly, the other student after me stood up and asked the teacher to flog him for the two of us 😳 I couldn't believe my eyes, he was so confident about it and I tried to ask him not to do it as I was scared he might die from taking up two punishments at once (ten lashes on his thigh) I increased my tears in hopes that the teacher won't fall for his offer because I knew I'd feel bad towards him.
The teacher paused and asked him why he was being that kind, he said he has never heard my voice since I started coming to the school 😂 as serious as he sounded, the teacher burst into laughter and I got even more scared but he was right, I didn't had a reason to say a word for the two days I had been in the class.
Well guess what! The teacher flogged me but reduced the number of canes on thighs and increased the number on his own, I cried so much even after the class and the others kept consoling me. I got to thank him and he became a great friend afterwards and sadly that day of punishment marked our friendship anniversary 😂 so yeah, that is why it is a memorable one for me and I could safely say same for him as well.
