Okay, but did anyone call them "duties" when you were a kid? The school people who oversaw recess were the duties, and if you got in trouble, you'd get sent to The Wall. Then the other kids would play Wall Ball at that wall and you'd have to dodge the ball for your own safety.
I tell my friends this, and none of them had this experience. They don't know what "duties" are, they don't know wall ball or associate it with punishment. Was this only my childhood?
I had yard duties, The Wall sounds a little dystopian. One of the other children tattled on me once for swearing but I don't think anyone used me as target practice.
At my elementary school it was a chain link fence. If you got in trouble you had to sit by it and weren't allowed to be close enough to talk to anyone. This was done even in the middle of winter when it was below freezing out.
I played wall ball but the supervisor teachers would've sent us to the office (get in trouble in some way) if we had whipped a ball at kid standing there! There were definitely, like, timeouts if kids got rowdy and they mightve had them stand at the wall to go back in to school before recess ended.
Okay, but did anyone call them "duties" when you were a kid? The school people who oversaw recess were the duties, and if you got in trouble, you'd get sent to The Wall. Then the other kids would play Wall Ball at that wall and you'd have to dodge the ball for your own safety.
I tell my friends this, and none of them had this experience. They don't know what "duties" are, they don't know wall ball or associate it with punishment. Was this only my childhood?
I had yard duties, The Wall sounds a little dystopian. One of the other children tattled on me once for swearing but I don't think anyone used me as target practice.
The Wall (1982)
we called them the noon aides
Lol but we always said it as one word, so for years I thought there was a job title called nunade
At my elementary school it was a chain link fence. If you got in trouble you had to sit by it and weren't allowed to be close enough to talk to anyone. This was done even in the middle of winter when it was below freezing out.
I played wall ball but the supervisor teachers would've sent us to the office (get in trouble in some way) if we had whipped a ball at kid standing there! There were definitely, like, timeouts if kids got rowdy and they mightve had them stand at the wall to go back in to school before recess ended.