For displaced, misplaced, and nostalgic ex-Brooklynites
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Posted by Dan C.
on Friday, May 9th 2008: In Reply to: Re: Stupid Parochial School Haircut Rules posted by john tiernan on Thursday, May 8th 2008: The brothers left SRL after I completed the 5th grade (1966-67 school year) so I never had them as teachers but do remember them being there. The school also went co-ed in 1967-68. In the 4th grade myself and a friend got to school a little late on a very snowy day and were making noise in the stairwell. Some brother comes along and reprimands us. Then he said we had to write a "composition" about who knows what. So I go home and write something and bring it back to him on monday morning right in his class full of the "big" kids. He and his class and a laugh on us. The brothers would paddle guys after opening up all the classroom doors on the floor so we could get the full effect of hearing the kid scream and hopefully beg for mercy. Another incident also in the 4th grade. One morning our teacher, old Mrs. Hussey, was late. So we sit in class and all start talking and whatever. This little French-Canadian brother comes into the room and throws his keys at me across my desk hitting me in the chest. He had like 20 keys on that damn ring! It hurt! The girls probably had it worse because many of the nuns were very old and not playing with a full deck. In the 5th grade my teacher, the very nice Mrs. Etter, gave me a note to bring to a teacher on the Girls Floor. This was like traveling behind enemy lines, but I had a note. Now I'm on the girls floor looking in each classroom for this teacher. One cranky crazy old nun pulls me into to her classroom shreiking that I was staring at her. Well how the hell else was I supposed to find the teacher I had the note for? I never got the beatings that the kids there in the 1950s and 60s had to put up with. I'm still glad that I had a Catholic education. It prepared me for high school and even college. I can still name my teachers 40 years later: 1 - Mrs. Curran Reference ID: BK77265
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