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>I think a big part of the reason, we never got >spankings over our grades is because my Momma did. >Granny expected her and Aunt Connie to make straight >A's and would whip their bare butts with a switch for >even bringing home a B. Momma's weakest subject was >math and she struggled with it. From what she's told >me, she got a whippin' nearly every report card day. > >My folks didn't pay as much attention to the grades as >they did the conduct marks. I never got an F but I did >bring home a couple of D's honestly because I wasn't >paying attention enough in class and I got a good >talking to about it at the worst and was told I could >do better than that. If I got a C, I didn't get fussed >at, just told I'm smarter than that and they would try >to help me if I was struggling in school. Of the three >of us, my brother is the only one who ever brought >home an F. That was in his Junior year. He had taken >an Language Arts class called "Mass Media" thinking it >might be an easy grade, but in that class you were >expected to listen to two hours of radio including >news, two hours of tv also including news and read a >newspaper EVERY DAY and be ready to report on it the >next day. They wanted to know the top stories on the >news programming, sports results and so forth and you >were expected to write all this down to be turned in. >The teacher even wanted to know about the commercials >during that time you were viewing or listening. Ninety >percent of the students who took that elective FAILED >it. Including my brother. He didn't have any problems >with the other three elective courses he took. I >avoided that one myself because I heard about it. I >took Speed Reading, Creative Writing, Advanced >Creative Writing and strangely enough Comic Books as >an Art Form class even though I really wasn't into >comic books. I did well with all four of those >classes. By the time my sister was in High School, >Mass Media was removed from the Curriculum because >students quit taking it. > >On the other hand, There was the "Conduct" section of >the report card. I sometimes would get "needs >improvement" or "unsatisfactory" marks because I was a >chatterbox and got in trouble a LOT for talking and >sometimes being tardy because I'd be outside the >classroom talking when I was supposed to already be in >my desk. Also, I had a bit of a temper and sometimes >would go full blown redneck. So I got into more than a >few fights at school with different girls and a couple >of boys. In addition to getting paddled or detention, >that would show up on my conduct under "citizenship" >as "unsatisfactory". So unless I had a really good >explanation, If I brought home an "NI" or a "U" on the >conduct part of the report card, I'd have to make a >trip over Momma's knee with my panties down to get a >good dose of the hairbrush to motivate me to do >better. Unfortunately, sometimes that was about as >successful as catching water in a strainer. > >So while I didn't get spanked for grades, my behavior >at School got me QUITE A FEW trips over Momma's knee. >All the way from First Grade to my Senior Year.

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