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Did anyone else ever get yelled at for daydreaming in school?

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    Sean8342 - 41-45 years old - male

    Posted by Sean8342 Sep 4th, 2010 at 12:49AM

    When I was in primary school the cane was still legal... so I would get six of the best for daydreaming....six of the best for chatting... six of the best for minching.... six of the best for setting the local farmers hedgerow on fire....etc

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  1. Rolle2323 - 56-60 years old - female

    Reply by Rolle2323 Sep 2nd, 2010 at 6:10PM

    This sounds positively gothic! In the USA we used to allow students to be hit on the hand with a ruler, in parochial school, and I am not sure precisely when it was outlawed. There are lots of stories about nuns hitting children with rulers.

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7 Answers to "Did anyone else ever get yelled at for daydreaming in school?"

  1. Xuul - 31-35 years old

    Posted by Xuul Sep 2nd, 2010 at 6:16PM

    I got yelled at for everything, screeched at. I had teachers make right out fun of me and actually get the whole class to answer questions about my lackings. But when I really think about it I think the spaced-out-ness I would get when I would stare into the nowhere was the only time they just told me normally to get back to my work as if I forgot where I was or something when I was probably just falling asleep... They thought I was ****** in the head cuz I remember finding papers at home of them babbling about it (as well as other things) behind my back all officially. Of course I was never asked the why of anything, I was just assumed to be ****** up.

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    Manhandling in that hell hole school I was in is a whole series of stories on its own.....

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  2. Rolle2323 - 56-60 years old - female

    Reply by Rolle2323 Sep 2nd, 2010 at 6:08PM

    Reading about this, I feel fortunate that I was only yelled at the one time, and manhandled down the hallway once.

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  3. Brainyblonde - 66-70 years old - female

    Posted by Brainyblonde Aug 31st, 2010 at 4:11PM

    Yelled at, lectured, punished--a lot! Then I figured out how to do it without looking as if I were doing it and that solved my problem. Daydreaming was the only thing that kept me, and my soul, alive during the miserable, boring, oppressive, humiliating years of education in the public school system.

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  4. Rolle2323 - 56-60 years old - female

    Reply by Rolle2323 Sep 2nd, 2010 at 6:12PM

    I wasn't as clever as you. I had to pay attention or I gave myself away completely!

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  5. Powderblue - 36-40 years old - female

    Posted by Powderblue Aug 31st, 2010 at 4:09PM

    Not exactly, my usual expression is tranquil and kind of sleepy so all through school teachers constantly picked me for random questions but only two ever just assumed I was daydreaming and yelled at me, lol.

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  6. free112 - 26-30 years old - male

    Posted by free112 Aug 31st, 2010 at 3:34PM

    In my class, I consider daydreaming as a good way to visualize the material that they are talking about in class. But no one ever yelled at me for it.

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  7. Mrsmardybum - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by Mrsmardybum Aug 31st, 2010 at 3:16PM

    I fell asleep in my Business studies class, it was soooo boring, looking back thats probably why I failed miserably at high school and then had to return as a mature student. Damn it should have stayed awake! Oh and I didn't get yelled at, I dont think that the teacher cared, as I didn't, sadly.

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  8. lickitysplit - 61-65 years old - male

    Posted by lickitysplit Aug 31st, 2010 at 3:10PM

    No, not for daydreaming. Now outright REM Sleep dreaming is an entirely different matter. I got yelled at about that all the time.

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