From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 22:34:42 MDT
James writes
> From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
> > [ > Dunking usually consisted of a mob of
> > > 10-20 or so chasing the 1st year students
> > > around until exhaustion set in, grabbing
> > > the nearest one, and flinging him bodily
> > > into the stream. On occasion (for the big
> > > bonus points) they'd manage to get the
> > > swans riled up and watch the hapless child
> > > get pecked and chased.
> > > Then the apple fights of course. Good fun
> > > when a teacher took one full force in the
> > > side of the head.
> >
> > Would you mind saying more about where and when you
> > were in school? And---if you would---I mean exactly
> > where. This is all getting stranger and stranger.
>
> Sure,
>
> The school was Moyle Park in Clondalkin village, a suburb of Dublin
> City. I was there from 1985 to 1990.
Oh, well, that explains it. The Irish are well known
for their rowdiness and bellicosity. I imagine that
to this day the typical Irish lad has been in a dozen
fights in as many years. "You'll get a broken airme
you say that to me agin."
> > I think that most of me are growing up in parallel worlds
> > quite unlike this, where people behaved themselves the way
> > we did in southern California in the fifties and sixties.
>
> From what I've been told, the 60s schooling here seemed
> to consist of avoiding cruel teachers and the beatings
Well, that is what I am aiming to find out. I repeat,
in southern California (and, as well as memory permits
western Nebraska), everyone appeared to behave themselves
rather nicely. You'd *never* have a gang throw anyone
into a river, or strike an adult with an apple.
> and/or buggery of the Christian Brothers.
Okay, well, only a small minority---EVEN WITHIN the Catholic
schools, I believe---ever had to put up with that. I wish
to confine the discussion to typical behavior over geography.
Lee
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