A close friend of mine in HS had a younger sister who was attending parochial school in CT. When she was in the sixth grade, she got smacked repeatedly by one of the nuns with one of those blackboard pointers. Their father was a policeman, very scary looking, very big guy, until you got to know him and realized the gruff exterior was just a facade. He took her out of the catholic school and she went public from then on. It had to have been really extreme for Mr. Law and Order to do that, like a bunch of welts all over her. And believe me, knowing her she did plenty to deserve whatever they dished out. She tried as much as possible to act like a commie in rebellion to her dad's conservatism.
