1880’s BERDYANSK GYMNASIUM: BEHAVIOR OF PUPILS
(I.Lyman)
I found it amusing to read the penalties for
poor behavior in Berdyansk schools.
Major offenses included:
Evading arrest
“Unauthorized withdrawal from lessons”
(cutting class??)
Fighting
Smoking inside or outside the school
“Inappropriate & impolite expression with
respect to teachers…”
“Penalty…should, if possible, match the
properties of the offense and would be a natural consequence of it. So, laziness punished by forced labor,
excessive talkativeness or quarrelsome disposition—removal from his comrades,
arrogance—humiliation lies—distrust, riot, rebellion or flagrant manifestation
of anger---Prisoners in solitary confinement on bread and water, and even the
removal from the institution…”
“…solitary confinement for the duration of
more than 4 hours and not more than 8 hours, the content for this time on black
bread and water…”
If the student failed to comply, “the
pedagogical council would resort to his dismissal from school”. Dismissal might
be as follows:
Removal from school or gymnasium---
--With the right of admission to other
schools in the same city
--Without the right of admission to
educational institutions in the same city
--With notification to all school authorities
and with deprivation of the right to enter any educational institution
If the student was a boarder, special
penalties might apply:
--standing at the table during breakfast,
lunch, or dinner
--sitting at a special table apart from
friends during breakfast, lunch, or dinner, with the deprivation of one
portion..,
--meals replaced with black bread and water
So, do you think their students were any more respectful and diligent than today's students in the US or elsewhere?? HA!
So, do you think their students were any more respectful and diligent than today's students in the US or elsewhere?? HA!
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