Cowichan Valley Citizen | Wednesday, October 7, 2015
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COMING up in Cowichan Enjoy garden tour of England here in Duncan Carrie Nelson, president of the Cowichan Valley Rhododendron Society, is extending an invitation to gardeners and others to its Oct. 7 meeting at St. John’s Anglican Church hall in Duncan at 7:30 p.m. for a virtual tour. “We are featuring a special presentation on our successful spring 2015 tour of southeast England gardens,” she explained.
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Many students had good memories from learning in old schoolhouses more than a century ago, but others were already taking issue with the corporal punishment that was routine at that time. [FILE]
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When children spoke softly and teachers carried a big stick
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Mrs. Horne or having promised 10-fold punishment. This left the trustees with a sticky dilemma. They confined themselves to the issue of discipline rather than get into the opposing accounts between parent and principal, and unanimously declared themselves to be “in favour of the rule” made against speaking in the hallways. However, “This Board considers the punishment inflicted on Miss Horne for a breach of School Rules was altogether too severe for the nature of the offence committed, viz: speaking when forbidden, and the Board hereby condemn corporal punishment in the Girls’ Department except in extreme cases. “Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be sent to Mr. A.G. Horne and Miss Gardiner.” So much for school discipline back in 1887. Perhaps trustees, in showing their support for Miss Gardiner’s harsh administration — not once did they express dissatisfaction with a stick “a yard and a foot long” being used on children — they were making up for a school inspector’s report of some years earlier. John Jessop had condemned the Nanaimo school, the Boys’ division then run by J.C. Young and the Girls’ by a Miss McLeod, because children wandered into classes throughout the day and were “somewhat disorderly, and but little attention paid to the teacher. Discipline and arrangements of studies very deficient... The school room of the worst possible description.” www.twpaterson.com
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By the time Emily Emily was told to got home she was remain after school. When the others unable to lift so had left, Miss Garmuch as a small diner drew forth a teapot, so swollen “stick about four were her hands. By feet long” and delivevening she was ill ered “three heavy with fever. blows on each hand, ow times have CHRONICLES raising large wails changed. and bruises on the Today corT.W. Paterson thumbs and wrists”. poral punishment By the time Emily got home is not only out of fashion in she was unable to lift so much the school system but out of as a small teapot, so swollen bounds legally. This is a far were her hands. By evening cry from the case of discipline she was ill with fever. which challenged Nanaimo Asked her side of the story, school trustees in October Miss Gardiner stated that, 1887. several weeks before, she’d The five-man board, under imposed a rule of total silence the chairmanship of former that “the pupils should march mayor Mark Bate, already had into and from the schoolrooms a situation with another parin a quiet and orderly manent, W.L. Jeffrey, who’d filled ner”. There’d been several entire newspaper columns instances of students violatin a letter to the editor coming this edict, despite resulting plaining that his son had been detentions, and she’d warned set back four grades by his the girls that she’d “whip teacher to avenge himself of a personal grievance against the them” if they persisted in breaking the rule. father. He was at the special When she caught Emily meeting to carry on his case Horne speaking to Nellie Gibbut was informed that he’d have to await the next meeting son, she “got a stick a yard and a foot long” from another while the board dealt with a teacher’s room and delivered charge laid against Miss Garthree “cuts” (quote) to each diner, principal of the Girls’ hand. She concluded by sayDepartment. ing that she didn’t think the Well-known citizen A.G. punishment to be “in the least Horne had formally comsevere”. plained that Miss Gardiner Also present at the trustees’ had “most unmercifully” meeting was Mrs. Horne. She beaten his 14-year-old daughtold how she’d visited the ter Emily. Apparently, Emily, school to “remonstrate with while entering the school, Miss Gardiner for the brutal murmured to her friend Neltreatment” of her daughter. lie Gibson that her hairstyle Not only had the principal was slipping. The alert Miss “greatly insulted her,” but had Gardiner either heard her promised to punish Emily “10 or saw her lips move. Either times as much” if she again way, it meant punishment as broke the rules. Miss Gardiner speaking in the hallway was stoutly denied having insulted expressly forbidden.
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