Remembering the Punishment Lines I Had to Write at School
மார்ச் 15, 2021
A one-memory page about school detentions and the repetitive lines used as punishment: do not bully, come to school, tuck the shirt in, stop cheating, stop swearing, and stop talking back. The whole visible entry is that remembered ritual of discipline.
Remembering School Detentions and Writing Punishment Lines
3:45 a.m.
I remember I used to go for detentions very regularly. I was punished by being made to write "lines". Like Bart Simpson in the intro. I wrote;
"I will not bully my friends"
"I will come to school every day"
"I will tuck my shirt in"
"I will not cheat in my exams"
"I will not disrespect my teachers"
"I will not talk back to my teachers"
"I will not say bad words"
I just wrote one word, then the below one, and then, I started on "will" and then "tuck" and bla bla bla