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School. Yeah, it basically feels like a prison. Schools have like the worst rules of all time still to this day. Like I don't understand how some of these rules slide. I don't know. I gotta raise my hand to do any human function. Like if I have to go to the bathroom and I really gotta piss and the teacher says no, like I'm fucked. Like what am I gonna do? Just piss in my pants? Hell nah. And now we're gonna look at the history of school punishments from then versus now. And now starting off, we got the dunce cap.
Now a lot of you probably don't know what this is, but basically what this was is a cap that you'd put on a kid's head for misbehaving and it just said- it said the word "DUNS" on it, no shit. But anyways, yeah, they'd stand in front of the room while the whole class laughs at them and just- just marvels at them like they're some kind of zoo animal. I guess the teachers cooked this one up back in like the 1800s because they thought the kids wearing the Duns cap would feel humiliated
and never would want to do that again. So it was also used for people who were slow learners. So I would have been wearing this john all the time. So I mean, yeah, the school system in general is just shit to begin with, but holy fuck, I did not realize how shit it was before. But getting humiliated is already a fucking terrible punishment as it is. But, you know, going down the ladder, these teachers were just cooking up the most diabolical punishments known to man.
But of course, out of all these punishments, this one is still out to this day. All right, this punishment is still going. I don't know how it is. I really have no idea. Homework. Why does homework exist? Like, genuinely. Like, imagine going to school for seven hours a day, and then you've got to come home and do fucking four more hours of work. That is crazy. Sometimes even more than that. And now college, bro.
I either get no homework at all or I gotta cook up an entire project over the weekend. It's fucking ridiculous. Like, at this point, bro, I'm just thinking about hanging up the hat, bro. Like, spare me the one more year of hell I gotta go through. Jesus Christ. And then sometimes I'd just be grinding on homework or whatever, a project over the weekend just to get a bootcamp.
OOF ass grade! Like, why do grades even exist? Like, sometimes I be cookin' up, like, long-ass cooks, like, 3 a.m. cook-ups, and I still get a fuckin' F, bro. It's ridiculous. Now, getting an F has been around for fuckin' ages, since, like, school started. And, yeah, even though I work hard on these assignments and shit, I still be gettin' Fs. Like, I don't understand how. Maybe I'm just fuckin' stupid, I don't know. Like, sometimes you don't do one little thing on the project, and your grade gets deducted so much. Like, I...
I don't under- Why? Why? And, like, your grade determines your entire self-worth at this fucking school or prison, whatever the hell you want to call it. It's practically the same thing, bro. And at this point, your entire self-worth is held by the numbers. So if you had a 1.0 GPA, unfortunately, in the 1800s, your ass was probably wearing the goddamn dunce cap. The grading system still has a shit ton of flaws and-
Homework still exists for some reason. I don't know why. But anyways, as we move to the late 1800s, the punishment of sitting in the corner was created. And this punishment, of course, whenever you did something wrong or the teacher deemed as wrong, she'd put your ass in the fucking corner and you'd be sitting there for, I don't know, like 30 minutes, an hour, two hours, sometimes hell, even the entire school.
And I guess the point of this one is you gotta sit there and reflect on what you did while you're sitting in the corner. Because, fuck, what else are you gonna do? Just stare at the wall and watch the goddamn paint dry the entire time? No. And if you're not actually teaching them what they're doing wrong, bro, it's not gonna fucking work. And I guess that's how people in the 1800s operated. They thought, oh yeah, we just have them sit at a fucking wall and stare at it. They'll eventually learn what's wrong and right.
Like, how does that even work, bro? What the f- But this next one was really fucking painful, bro. I don't know if any of you had to do this, like, in your schooling career, but what these kids would have to do was put their hands over their heads and just hold it there. And some of you might be like, ah, well, that's not too bad. Try holding your hands over your head for 20 minutes, and then tell me how you feel after.
Yeah, it fucking sucks. It's kind of like that feeling like when you have your hand in the air and the teacher just isn't looking in your direction and you're sitting there for five minutes looking stupid as hell while the whole class is looking at you. Yeah, I might be the only one who experienced that. I'm not gonna lie. Who came up with this idea, bro? It was literally just a waste of time, bro. Like,
What the fuck is the point of this? Like, I'd rather do fucking push-ups or some shit. Like, I don't know, my arms will actually get stronger that way, rather than just holding them up in the air. But as we move on to the early 1900s, this punishment kind of still exists to this day, but to a less, uh, severe standard. So pretty much, kids would have to write something like a hundred times on the board to apparently learn that they'll never do it again. And no, trust me, it fucking worked.
I had to do it. Yeah. So in first grade, my teacher was a fucking old head, right? And I basically was talking to my friend the entire class, bro. Like me and my friend were neighbors. We would do fucking everything together. So we were in this class together and we just would not shut the fuck up. So at the end of class, my teacher was like, all right, I'm sitting you guys down and you have to write. I will not talk in class 20 times. I'm like, oh hell no. What the
And I thought this was like some kind of boot camp ass punishment, bro. I was like, there's no way they could get away with this. This is so terrible. But this fucking next one, man. I don't know how the hell they got away with this, to be honest with you, bro. So they used to hit students on the hand with the ruler, like if they write with their left hand or they would hit them with paddles, like if they did something bad.
Definitely not showing any footage of it, just to be safe. I don't want to get fucking demonetized out here. I mean, this video probably already did, to be honest with you. But, yeah, I don't know how the fuck people decided to cook this up and thought it would work. Like, what? Beating the sense out of them? That's not gonna do anything, bro. If anything, bro, that's gonna make them feel like they're walking on eggshells 24-7. And they're gonna be, like, super afraid to make a mistake. Like, I don't know why they thought that was gonna fix anything, bro. And if you were a lefty, you were basically fucked.
fucked because what are you gonna do right with your right hand knob you're gonna get slapped senselessly with that goddamn paddle for how bad your penmanship is like who cares what hand they fucking write with like i don't know why it was that big of a deal but yeah the school system just really gotta pull up their ass i don't know and sometimes they literally would do it in front of the class too which was so fucking weird but eventually they banned this in all schools in like 1999 i think i don't know it
This is the first time I've done research for a video, so cut me some slack. So yeah, they couldn't punish by violence anymore. So they had to resort to other things that were just really stupid. Like, I don't know why these even existed. The Island Punishment. A lot of you probably got this, like, in the early 2000s. I sure as hell did in first grade. I definitely got this punishment for sure, bruh. And basically what this is, is you have to sit alone by yourself on an island...
as they call it, like just a desk away from everybody else. Like nah bro, that's just dehumanizing as fuck. Hell nah bro. Then everybody's just fucking staring at you because you're by yourself. Like nah bro, it's so weird bro. It's so fucking weird. I was put on an island one time bro. It was the weirdest fucking experience of my life. People were just staring at me and I was just sitting there fidgeting with my fucking pencil the whole time because I had nothing better to do. Like
What else am I supposed to do, bruh? And of course, I was crying like a little bitch, too. I just could not handle it, bro. I could not handle the heat of being on an island. I mean, that didn't teach me shit about not talking in class, I'm just gonna be honest, because it happened multiple times after that. But what did teach me was the cards. Y'all know the cards. Y'all know the cards I'm fucking talking about.
The green card, the yellow card, and the red card, bro. If your ass got the yellow card, you got a warning, bro. You were almost about to be sent to the principal's office. And if you got a red card, it was over. Your ass is going to the principal's office. It's over. It's wraps. Your ass is getting sent to the gulag, bro. But anyways, I didn't want to go to the principal's office. Absolutely not.
After experiencing the torture of the island and the "I will not talk in class" punishment, there was no way I was going to the principal's office. Absolutely not, bro. So I got a yellow card once, and then I cried like a bitch until I got it back to green. Like, I'm so serious when I say that, bruh. But when you do go to the principal's office, there is a host of different punishments that you can get. It's like a whole ass "choose your character" type shit, bruh. Like, the principal is out here deciding your fate. Like, he could very well get you expelled.
depending on what you did. But anyways, the options were detention, suspension, ISS, expulsion, or social suspension? Yeah, this one was kind of stupid, bro. I'm not gonna hold you. Like, what the hell is the point of this? I don't know. But anyways, detention, the teacher would choose how long they get to sit in a classroom with you. Like,
Why would they even volunteer to just throw their time away like that? I don't fucking know. It was just purely a waste of time. Like nothing gets done here. Why? Why is detention a thing, bro? Like I don't fucking understand it. But suspension, of course, it can either be ISS or out of school suspension. ISS is so chips, bro. That shit is fucking garbage, bro.
I never got ISS before, but I've had some friends who've had ISS and all they had to do was sit in a little fucking office for the entire day. And they didn't even have their computer either. They were just stuck writing shit all day. Oh, hell no. I would have jumped out the fucking window. I don't care how big the fall is, bro. I'm still taking that goddamn fall. Because ISS is definitely the last thing I'm trying to put up with, bro. Hell nah, bro. But of course, suspension outside of school.
It's like a goddamn vacation like who wouldn't take that but I mean you get your shit taken away though So yeah, not really much of a vacation if i'm being real with you But if you get suspended for a stupid ass reason and your parents understand Yeah, it's pretty much a vacation like I got suspended from my work once I know this has nothing to do with school and I was literally off for a week Like it was the greatest vacation of my life. Like I sucked so bad at my job They just told me you know what?
You don't mean you don't even need to come in just stay home and play fortnight all week And that's exactly what I did, bro I literally just fucking sat at home and played fortnight all week and now there was a punishment called social suspension at my high school I don't really understand this one to be honest with you It was like if you if you fail two classes You're suspended from taking part in like social activities and shit like that But thankfully at my high school, it was basically impossible to fail like
If you failed, man, like, you just weren't trying. Like, that's- that's kinda how it was. The lowest grade you could get was a 50. So you could fail all year and make, like, the greatest comeback of the fuckin' century if you really wanted to. But yeah, after getting that 40, bruh, that was a rude-ass awakening for me, bruh. I almost shit my fuckin' pants. And yeah, Expulsion, last on the list, yeah, you get kicked out. I mean, sometimes it's for a stupid-ass reason. I don't know why they expel people for dumb-ass reasons, but...
They do it. I don't know. They can really decide your fate if they don't like you, bro. If they're not rocking with you. But nah, people got expelled for like defending themselves. It is absolutely ridiculous that like we even have to deal with that. It's insane.