Growing up as a child, I can't say I was stubborn, I just wanted to do whatever that pleases me and sometimes the adults including my teachers don't just allow me do it.
I would rather say that growing up, I had clash of interests a lot with my teachers rather than saying I was stubborn... Maybe I was anyway 😂
It's not hard to tell that I got punished a lot with my clashing of Interest character but there was this particular punishment that I can't just forget, it stood out, lol.
I just got admitted into the secondary school of my choice and the school was known for their high level of discipline.
They keep track of this by punishments, suspension and expulsion, so literally, every student was afraid of getting expelled and had no option than to obediently stick to the school rules and regulations.
As the new admits, we came back to school a week earlier than the old students, it's a boarding school, lest I forget.
On Monday, we started going for orientations and just excursions to know our environment.
The school rules and regulations were read out for us and we were told the punishment for all of them of which emphasis was made on fighting.
On the Friday of our orientation week, we were all seated in our classrooms waiting for the time for our dismissal to reach so we could go home since we finished the day's excursion earlier than normal that day.
One of my classmates started playing and jumping on the lockers of people, I told him not to lay a foot on my locker but he was hell bent on doing that.
He jumped on it the first time and as if that wasn't enough, he came back for a second round.
At this time, I got really annoyed and before you know it we started fighting.
We were not WWE champions but we sure made a scene that drew people towards us to watch the interesting fight.😂
Unfortunately for us, the Economics teacher was just passing and the crowd attracted him. Everyone dispersed immediately they saw him but we were too engrossed in our fight to notice what was going on and before we could find out, he already knew we were fighting.
He told us to kneel down and left.
Few minutes after, this man came back with a bag of cane😂, I couldn't understand what my eyes were seeing, I wanted to call my mum but she was no where to answer.
The man finally broke the silence.....
Economics Teacher: Fighting is a very serious offence in this school just like you've known and what is the punishment for that?
The Students chorused Instant Expulsion in unison
Economics Teacher: I will be lenient enough however to give you guys option....
I was already regretting my act at this point and was wondering what will happen between me and my dad if I get home and told him he paid all those money for me to get expelled a week after entering school and so, I was very open to any other option aside expulsion
Economics Teacher: The options are;
Do you want me to report you to the principal and you will be expelled immediately, OR,
Do you want to receive 50strokes of cane and be forgiven?
These two options were actually not the options I expected as both of them were brutal ones but then the flogging was the better devil 😂
I could still remember that when he got to stroke 30 or thereabout, I couldn't even cry again but was rather gasping for air😂
Oh! What a day it was 🤣
Ever since then till today, I've never fought even an ant talk more of a human being 😂, I just subconsciously remember that incident.
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