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:
 

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  • Boys and girls playing together -- 4
  • Fighting at school -- 5
  • Gambleing or beting at school -- 4
  • Playing at cards at school -- 10
  • Climbing for every foot over three feet up a tree -- 1
  • Telling lyes -- 7
  • Telling tales out of school -- 8
  • Nicknaming each other -- 4
  • Swaring at school -- 8
  • Blackgarding each other -- 6
  • For misbehaving to girls -- 10
  • For drinking spirituous liquors at school -- 8
  • Making swings and swinging on them -- 7
  • For waring long finger nails -- 2
  • Misbehaving to persons on the road -- 4
  • For going to girl's play places -- 3
  • Girles going to boys play places -- 2
  • Coming to school with dirty face and hands -- 2
  • For caling each other liars -- 4
  • For bloting your copy book -- 2
  • For not making a bow when going out to go home -- 2
  • For weting each other washing at play time -- 2
  • For hollowing and hooping going home -- 3
  • For every word you mis in your hart leson without good excuse -- 1
  • For not saying yes sir and no sir or yes marm or no marm -- 2
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NC Division of Non-Public Education
1309 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC  27699-1309
Telephone:  (919) 733-4276
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June, 2001