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Stokes County Academy 1824 Rules

North Carolina's Stokes County Academy student rules in the year 1824 included the following number of lashes for various forms of student misconduct:

Misconduct Lashes
Blackgarding each other 6
Boys and girls playing together 4
Climbing for every foot over three feet up a tree 1
Coming to school with dirty face and hands 2
Fighting at school 5
For bloting your copy book 2
For caling each other liars 4
For drinking spirituous liquors at school 8
For every word you mis in your hart leson without good excuse 1
For going to girl's play places 3
For hollowing and hooping going home 3
For misbehaving to girls 10
For not making a bow when going out to go home 2
For not saying yes sir and no sir or yes ma'am or no ma'am 2
For waring long finger nails 2
For weting each other washing at play time 2
Gambleing or beting at school 4
Girles going to boys play places 2
Making swings and swinging on them 7
Misbehaving to persons on the road 4
Nicknaming each other 4
Playing at cards at school 10
Swaring at school 8
Telling lyes 7
Telling tales out of school 8
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