James sent this information on helping children learn and keeping order in
the schools posted on chalk boards in the classroom (courtesy of Sacramento
School Museum).
Punishment in Lashes (1848)
1. Boy and girls playing together. – 4
2. Fighting at school. – 5
3. Quarreling at school. – 5
4. Gambling or betting at school. – 4
5. Playing cards at school. – 10
6. Climbing for every foot over three feet up a tree. – 1
7. Telling lies. – 7
8. Telling tales out of school. – 8
9. Giving each other ill names. – 3
10. Swearing at school. – 8
11. Misbehaving to girls. – 10
12. For drinking liquors/spirits at school. – 8
13. Making swings and swinging on them. – 7
14. For wearing long finger nails. – 2
15. Misbehaving to persons on the road. – 4
16. For going to girls places. – 3
17. For going to boys places. – 3
18. For coming to school with dirty faces and hands. – 2
19. For calling each other liars. – 4
20. For wrestling at school. – 4
21. For wetting each other at playtime. – 2
22. Scuffling at school. – 4
23. For going and playing about the mill or creek. – 6
24. For going about the barn or doing any mischief in the place. – 7
Life has changed . .
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”