I’m instantly taken back to fourth grade in a Catholic school (thankfully, it was just that one year).
There was a classroom rule against telling another student to shut up. We had a pop quiz and the student next to me, who didn’t much like me, didnt have a pencil. I asked if she needed to borrow one and she told me to shut up.
Ms. Ranthum heard, and the punishment was applied. The offender had to write out “shut up” 500 times. The fucked up part, though, was that the person who was told to shut up also had to do the Bartman, as it were. I wish I could remember the exact wording of what it was that I had to copy 500 times.
The thing that’s still unbelievable to this day to me is that the sentence I had to write out was essentially apologizing for making someone to tell me to shut up, and was 10-15 words long, making the punishment for my attempt to be kind to someone who didn’t like me exponentially worse than hers for being rude.
