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What's the name for this punishment?

Hi there!
I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to cross their arms, pull their ears, squat down and rise with backs upright repeatedly.
Is there a term to describe this particular form of punishment? Something like 'push-ups" which is the more common form of punishment.

Also how would a drill sergeant tell new recruits to do push-ups as a punishment? I recall there's a specific way of saying it, but the actual words eludes me.
Thank you.
Jeff
  

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[nq:1]Hi there! I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to cross their arms, pull their ears, squat down ... a term to describe this particular form of punishment?

  • [nq:1]Hi there!
  • I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to cross their arms, pull their ears, squat down ...
  • a term to describe this particular form of punishment?
  • [/nq] Where is this school?
  • North Korea?
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[nq:1]Hi there! I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to cross their arms, pull their ears, squat down ... a term to describe this particular form of punishment? Something like 'push-ups" which is the more common form of punishment.[/nq]
Where is this school? North Korea?
[nq:1]Also how would a drill sergeant tell new recruits to do push-ups as a punishment? I recall there
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[nq:2]Hi there! I've seen some teachers punish students by asking ... like 'push-ups" which is the more common form of punishment.[/nq]
[nq:1]Where is this school? North Korea?[/nq]
The only school where I witnessed corporal punishment was in Tabarz, Germany. I never got any, but whenever I see that I have typed something wrong, I still put my hands behind me real quick-like.
Skitt (i
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[nq:1]I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to cross their arms, pull their ears, squat down and rise with backs upright repeatedly. Is there a term to describe this particular form of punishment?[/nq]
Hanging around India, have you been? I know the Tamil word for it; I don't think there is an English equivalent.
As for the form of punishment, it falls under corporal punis
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[nq:2]I've seen some teachers punish students by asking them to ... there a term to describe this particular form of punishment?[/nq]
[nq:1]Hanging around India, have you been? I know the Tamil word for it; I don't think there is an English equivalent. As for the form of punishment, it falls under corporal punishment punishment inflicted on the body.[/nq]
Don't keep us in suspense: What *i
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[nq:2]Where is this school? North Korea?[/nq]
[nq:1]The only school where I witnessed corporal punishment was in Tabarz, Germany. I never got any, but whenever I see that I have typed something wrong, I still put my hands behind me real quick-like. Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/[/nq]
So, you evaded the ministrations of Irish-trained teachers, I see.

Chee
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[nq:1]The only school where I witnessed corporal punishment was in Tabarz,[/nq]
Ah! You're so young! Corporal punishment was regularly administered, sometimes for fairly minor misdemeanours, in UK state schools up to the late 1970s. I cannot remember when the law was passed banning it.

In England they used a cane on the palm of the hand and in Scotland a leather belt or "tawse".
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[nq:1]Also how would a drill sergeant tell new recruits to do push-ups as a punishment? I recall there's a specific way of saying it, but the actual words eludes me.[/nq]
In movies, "drop and give me twenty" (or however many pushups are desired). I don't know how it's said in real life.

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[nq:2]The only school where I witnessed corporal punishment was in Tabarz,[/nq]
[nq:1]Ah! You're so young![/nq]
Young? That was in 1944!
[nq:1]Corporal punishment was regularly administered, sometimes for fairly minor misdemeanours, in UK state schools up to the late 1970s. I ... palm and started praying to *** for mercy from this tyrant; he then got a further five strokes for blasphem
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[nq:2]The only school where I witnessed corporal punishment was in Tabarz,[/nq]
[nq:1]Ah! You're so young! Corporal punishment was regularly administered, sometimes for fairly minor misdemeanours, in UK state schools up to ... In England they used a cane on the palm of the hand and in Scotland a leather belt or "tawse".[/nq]
The tawse was also used in parts of England.
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Gruffly and impatiently. And it's not punishment; it's extra training. Drill

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