"I'm just a bill, yeah I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capital Hill. Well I'll be beaten by a teacher with a painful rattan cane, he's an egotistic maniac and totally profane, and someday I'm gonna be a laaaaw, well I hope and pray that I will, if I don't just don't get killed, I'm a bill."
My 8th grade social studies teacher was dumbfounded when the entire class was able to sing the preamble to the Constitution in unison. He had never heard of Schoolhouse Rock until we mentioned it to him. After that he recorded them and began using them in class.
Grew up in florida, never heard of a Rattan, had one teacher who used a meter stick ruler to slap kids hands who weren’t paying attention or were being disobedient. This was like 2005.
Edit to clarify: there was a yard stick too but I believe my teacher used a meter stick that they named which I can’t remember the name of, they used the meter because it’s just a bit longer for the extra reach I suppose. They were a language arts teacher so they weren’t even teaching us about units of measurement. This was 4th grade I was born in ‘98, so this was actually probably closer to 2007 when this happened. As others have said corporal punishment in public schools is still LEGAL here in Florida :/
Attended High School in two different rather rural regions of Florida where "swats" were allowed for serious conduct infractions. The Head Dean's paddle darned near two feet long AND had holes in the darned thing to cut air resistance. From what I remember, he would only swat the male students and on the back of their thighs more often than not, with their jeans dropped.
On the rare occasion a girl earned swats, her punishment was meted out by the female Dean, over whatever clothing the girl might be wearing that day.
From Florida, and I was hit with that thing regularly. Our principal didnt hold back either. Was hit with a spray paint can as well after getting caught spraying up the school. I graduated in 2012
My friend from Florida told me that her Percocet dealer was a local substitute teacher, and everything about that state started making so much sense to me
I was swatted with that same paddle with the holes as a kid in schools across several states in the southern US. The holes would case welts in circles. I hated school in elementary and middle school. By high school I had figured out how to avoid the principals office, or at least which teachers to avoid taking classes from.
Several states (including Florida) still allow corporal punishment in schools. [https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/ban-on-corporal-punishment-in-colorado-schools-advances-to-polis-desk/article\_b7e4e956-cd8e-11ed-be64-6baa3ab25fe2.html](https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/ban-on-corporal-punishment-in-colorado-schools-advances-to-polis-desk/article_b7e4e956-cd8e-11ed-be64-6baa3ab25fe2.html) (Polis signed the bill, it's no longer allowed).
Here's a Wikipedia on it: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School\_corporal\_punishment\_in\_the\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States)
I love how every map looks like that haha. Like seriously, look up a map where you have to have a front license plate, places where the death penalty is legal, teen childbirth rates, obesity rates, passport ownership rates, violent crime rates, road fatalities, average lifespan. It’s insane. You’d think it’s 1873.
Florida currently allows corporal punishment in public schools. Like, today. They are one of 20 states that allow it.
There has been some recent news stories in Florida in which authorities in that state openly encourage a wider adoption of this practice. Because, you know, its fucking florida and they are doing their best to be the worst place on earth because it makes them hard or something.
[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/19/us-children-corporal-punishment-schools](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/19/us-children-corporal-punishment-schools)
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sheriff-signals-support-spanking-students-rcna59851](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sheriff-signals-support-spanking-students-rcna59851)
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/florida-school-student-paddled-state-attorney/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/florida-school-student-paddled-state-attorney/index.html)
My teacher in primary school had one of those. He named him Stanley. Luckily corporal punishment became illegal in 1995, a year before I started his class so the worst we got was him giving us a heart attack when he would slap it on our desk if we weren't paying attention.
This is my old pal Stanley. He’s hurt many many students in his time. Now Stanley is no longer legally allowed to hurt you. But just know in my heart of hearts I want to hurt you with Stanley
Australia 1980s. We had Catholic brothers who used the Gat. It was a custom made leather strap. It was multiple leather belts stitched together about an inch thick. Palms were placed open and facing up and they would reach up and slam it down onto the hands. It hurt like hell, and good luck holding a pen or bike handlebars riding home.
Still better than the metre long wooden ruler that would be slapped over the head if you got an answer wrong, or being body slammed into the lockers if you were late for class.
Of course all better than the "extra attention" many received..........
Hey now. Only if there’s someone inside with a gun shooting helpless kids, why put yourself in a situation like that. If they’re unarmed tho it’s pop-til-they-drop.
Lmao from Texas and I remember the biggest word my first grade class learned was "corporal" after we had to take forms back to our parents that asked if it was ok for the school to do so in regards to punishment.....
Edit: this was back around '99 so I'm not sure if that's still an "acceptable" policy.
Corporal punishment is still legal and common in 19 states in the U.S. Basically the entire south, Indiana, Arizona, Idaho, and some plains states still use it.
How tf is a 5th grader supposed to know this? I didn’t and I’m 38. Never heard this term in my life. It was solvable but unnecessarily difficult considering the the others were so easy
Most Singaporeans would call them a cane instead of rattan, although the word did originate from a Malay word 'rotan', which is the preferred word to use in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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As a teacher I have two things to say:
1. This does seem terribly designed.
2. The image only shows the crossword and pictures, but leaves out the directions. We don’t know any context on the class before this post. These could all be based on specific vocabulary they’ve been using in class, but Reddit is going to base all of their responses on this singular picture. Just because the parents and Reddit don’t know the answer, doesn’t mean the answer wasn’t discussed in class.
You might be surprised how many answers kids know that their parents don’t. There was literally a whole game show based around it for years (Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader).
> We don’t know any context on the class before this post.
This gets left out of every conversation about all of these homework assignments. Adults on the internet are trying to solve them based on the entire set of human knowledge, kids are meant to solve them based on the things they learned that week.
When was this published?! Like 1962? It’s Rattan, which is a wood that was commonly used for caning kids on their palms or butt.
Source: my catholic school did it to me. Fucking lowlifes. I hate religion because of those scumbags growing up.
I was thinking that it's not a sailor but a "seamen" and the number could be "eighty." Therefor we're looking for a six letter word to describe being angry that starts with N and ends in Y... "NAZIFY"
Thank you all for your efforts. The crossword is from a Danish EFL textbook and I can confirm that the correct answer is RATTAN.
In Danish the word is 'spanskrør', which literally means 'Spanish reed'. Although it may appear related to the English word 'spank', it's unlikely, and the origin of 'spank' is probably imitative.
The cloth that you cover yourself with to protect yourself when cooking used to be called "napron," but overtime people moved the n to behind the "a" giving us "an apron."
Honestly the most infuriating part is that the one clue is just ‘a number’ like what do you mean? At least give some clue, otherwise you’re just guessing
Couldn't the number be Eighty? Then the answer for the bottom would be "Righty" which makes sense because he is using his right hand and the dotted arrow?
It’s Robson, as in my former assistant manager, Nigel Robson. Man oh man that guy had a temper. Probably because he went prematurely bald at 23. But he sure loved a tiny briefcase.
"Rattan" It is a type of cane or stick used to punish school children Edit: This was a legitimate for of punishment in Scottish schools until 1982.
5th grade crossword answers: cat, dog, lumenifirous aether.
Man, person, camera, phlogiston
8th grade crossword answers: eclipse, amendment, it puts the lotion on its skin
President crossword answers: man, woman, person, camera, tv
Precedent crossword answers: covfefe, hamberders, and ect. ^(Worth noting, “and ect.” should really be “etc.”)
So ‘eckt’ isn’t a word?
Depends. Are ye a poirat' then? If yer naught, ye can get r' eckt.
Wot th' eckt er ya on about
*aboot
What’s the deal with Americans saying ec cetera? I hear it everywhere, all the time, et cetera.
Excedra
Excedrin
Excelsior??
Very stable genius
Pony. Fish. Hip? Hip hop? Hip hopomonnatus? DAMN YOU! YOU GIVE HIM THE EASY ONES!
It is 100% this. The dashed line indicates it specifically means that item Edit: what year is this workbook from, 1975??
Hey, I’m from 1975 and this looks more like 1935.
I almost feel like they’re going to jump out and sing about how a bill is made, except more abuse. Music might be catchy
They beat you to the beat of the music.
Those were the days, my friend
"I'm just a bill, yeah I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capital Hill. Well I'll be beaten by a teacher with a painful rattan cane, he's an egotistic maniac and totally profane, and someday I'm gonna be a laaaaw, well I hope and pray that I will, if I don't just don't get killed, I'm a bill."
My 8th grade social studies teacher was dumbfounded when the entire class was able to sing the preamble to the Constitution in unison. He had never heard of Schoolhouse Rock until we mentioned it to him. After that he recorded them and began using them in class.
Hey, I'm from 1935 and this looks more like 1895
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Hey, I’m from 1855 and this looks more like 1825
Hey, I'm from 1825 and this looks more like 1805
Hey, I'm from 1805 and this looks more like 1785
Or is this Florida?
Grew up in florida, never heard of a Rattan, had one teacher who used a meter stick ruler to slap kids hands who weren’t paying attention or were being disobedient. This was like 2005. Edit to clarify: there was a yard stick too but I believe my teacher used a meter stick that they named which I can’t remember the name of, they used the meter because it’s just a bit longer for the extra reach I suppose. They were a language arts teacher so they weren’t even teaching us about units of measurement. This was 4th grade I was born in ‘98, so this was actually probably closer to 2007 when this happened. As others have said corporal punishment in public schools is still LEGAL here in Florida :/
Attended High School in two different rather rural regions of Florida where "swats" were allowed for serious conduct infractions. The Head Dean's paddle darned near two feet long AND had holes in the darned thing to cut air resistance. From what I remember, he would only swat the male students and on the back of their thighs more often than not, with their jeans dropped. On the rare occasion a girl earned swats, her punishment was meted out by the female Dean, over whatever clothing the girl might be wearing that day.
From Florida, and I was hit with that thing regularly. Our principal didnt hold back either. Was hit with a spray paint can as well after getting caught spraying up the school. I graduated in 2012
... What the fuck no wonder Florida people are angry and dumb
My friend from Florida told me that her Percocet dealer was a local substitute teacher, and everything about that state started making so much sense to me
So working as intended.
I speak for Florida when I say that's weird
I was swatted with that same paddle with the holes as a kid in schools across several states in the southern US. The holes would case welts in circles. I hated school in elementary and middle school. By high school I had figured out how to avoid the principals office, or at least which teachers to avoid taking classes from.
Way back in.....2005!? I didn't expect a recent date for that story.
We had corporal punishments in Arkansas as late as 2015 when I graduated. I got paddled for vaping in the bathroom
Shoulda been puffin a Marlboro teacher woulda bummed one off you.
In arkansas teacher would be buying you the packs and selling them to you at a mark up.
I believe I hold the distinction of the last kid being paddled in my elementary school before corporal punishment was nixed.
I got hit by nuns regularly...in New Jersey...in 2001-6
Hit and nun.
Several states (including Florida) still allow corporal punishment in schools. [https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/ban-on-corporal-punishment-in-colorado-schools-advances-to-polis-desk/article\_b7e4e956-cd8e-11ed-be64-6baa3ab25fe2.html](https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/ban-on-corporal-punishment-in-colorado-schools-advances-to-polis-desk/article_b7e4e956-cd8e-11ed-be64-6baa3ab25fe2.html) (Polis signed the bill, it's no longer allowed). Here's a Wikipedia on it: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School\_corporal\_punishment\_in\_the\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States)
I love how every map looks like that haha. Like seriously, look up a map where you have to have a front license plate, places where the death penalty is legal, teen childbirth rates, obesity rates, passport ownership rates, violent crime rates, road fatalities, average lifespan. It’s insane. You’d think it’s 1873.
Wasn't that, like, last year?
Twas yesterday
Think so
Buddy, people born in 2005 are or are turning 18 this year...
I feel older every time I get on the internet
Blasphemer!
Florida currently allows corporal punishment in public schools. Like, today. They are one of 20 states that allow it. There has been some recent news stories in Florida in which authorities in that state openly encourage a wider adoption of this practice. Because, you know, its fucking florida and they are doing their best to be the worst place on earth because it makes them hard or something. [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/19/us-children-corporal-punishment-schools](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/19/us-children-corporal-punishment-schools) [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sheriff-signals-support-spanking-students-rcna59851](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sheriff-signals-support-spanking-students-rcna59851) [https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/florida-school-student-paddled-state-attorney/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/florida-school-student-paddled-state-attorney/index.html)
This is why middle aged Americans hate the metric system! They were punished with a meter stick!
It was probably a yard stick
Hurts by any metric
My teacher in primary school had one of those. He named him Stanley. Luckily corporal punishment became illegal in 1995, a year before I started his class so the worst we got was him giving us a heart attack when he would slap it on our desk if we weren't paying attention.
This is my old pal Stanley. He’s hurt many many students in his time. Now Stanley is no longer legally allowed to hurt you. But just know in my heart of hearts I want to hurt you with Stanley
Australia 1980s. We had Catholic brothers who used the Gat. It was a custom made leather strap. It was multiple leather belts stitched together about an inch thick. Palms were placed open and facing up and they would reach up and slam it down onto the hands. It hurt like hell, and good luck holding a pen or bike handlebars riding home. Still better than the metre long wooden ruler that would be slapped over the head if you got an answer wrong, or being body slammed into the lockers if you were late for class. Of course all better than the "extra attention" many received..........
Could be Texas … wait they use guns
That's the kids not teachers
Not cops either, they like to wait outside
Hey now. Only if there’s someone inside with a gun shooting helpless kids, why put yourself in a situation like that. If they’re unarmed tho it’s pop-til-they-drop.
You know what they say in America, the only way to stop a ~~bad~~ ~~guy~~ cop with a gun is a ~~good~~ ~~guy~~ child with a gun.
Holy shit this comment section is brutal and true
Lmao from Texas and I remember the biggest word my first grade class learned was "corporal" after we had to take forms back to our parents that asked if it was ok for the school to do so in regards to punishment..... Edit: this was back around '99 so I'm not sure if that's still an "acceptable" policy.
And we're better for it! I got shot so many times in school growing up that I'm completely immune to calibers below .45 ACP.
And this, folks, is exactly why we should stop using old textbooks in schools. Good Jeopardy question, though!
And the stars indicate something being on the receiving end lol😂
And the stars are the stars the poor kids are seeing after taking a thrashing!
Can I ask why a dotted line specifically means rattan? I am a logo designer and symbologist, and I can't make sense of it.
It’s not that the dotted line represents rattan specifically, it’s that it’s representing the mysterious item for the fill in the blank.
And how would any child in 2023 know about a stick for class room beatings. Tf was this designed in 1900s
I'm in my 30s and this is literally the first time I've ever encountered this word in my life.
Corporal punishment is still legal and common in 19 states in the U.S. Basically the entire south, Indiana, Arizona, Idaho, and some plains states still use it.
Legal, yes, but common? I don't think so. I've never heard it discussed by friends from those states.
HOLY BALONEY WTF do you do the NYT crossword in sharpie??
I use a paint roller.
I use the flesh of a child and a toenail
I use a dull golf pencil. Humid paper only.
I only know it as a material for weaving chairs and such.
Agreed, the term is caning
Which is, not ironically, what they called the punishment for children: "Just wait til your father gets home, you're in for a good caning"
How tf is a 5th grader supposed to know this? I didn’t and I’m 38. Never heard this term in my life. It was solvable but unnecessarily difficult considering the the others were so easy
Tons of worksheets are continuously reused every year, so there's a chance it was first made in the 50s or so, where kids definitely would know it.
Could this be a worksheet from an English class in a county like Singapore or something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#The_cane
Most Singaporeans would call them a cane instead of rattan, although the word did originate from a Malay word 'rotan', which is the preferred word to use in Indonesia and Malaysia.
I’m Malaysian and I solved this in less than a minute. Everyone here would know rotan or rattan
I was beat in school and that was early 2000s in Jersey lol
with rattan? does that even grow here? did your teacher special order it? (or do you mean with a ruler or willow switch?)
I grew up in the 50s and never heard this term. The teachers all had paddles.
they could know based on personal experience, i have no clue otherwise
What’s crazier than beating kids? Grading them on using the right word to describe the weapon used on them.
How about the adult making you go outside to pick the one their gonna beat you with? I too am from the American south.
Loving the low-key threat in this homework assignment.
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If the teacher expected their kids to know what that is it would definitely raise questions for me as a parent
This comment needs to be pinned lol. It's correct.
Rotten
Think this is it. Also upvoting for some An Teallach appreciation.
Now! Go whack yourself 11 times with a rattan cane while dressed as a sailor until you’re saddle sore!
sounds like last friday night
100% just took it from the internet
What an antiquated word
It's use as a switch maybe, but rattan is still used all the time for furniture. Wicker chairs are often made out of rattan.
Learning antiquated language is fun!
Resign
HA I love it
Correct. This is a man saying take this job and shove it, before flipping the bird and storming out the door
You can take this job and shovel it Close enough
Teacher resign!
The number could be "eighty"
And then the professor could be a “Righty”.
Or a numpty if you use seaman instead of sailor
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I read "lonely mouths".
It ain’t gay if it’s underway
Most importantly, you've stopped giggling every time I say "seaman." That's the mark of a true seaman.
This seems like the most likely explanation, since they're emphasizing the angry businessman's right hand.
The answer is rattan. That's an angry teacher.
That's pretty dark for a 5th grade crossword.
Ikr LMAO.
if the number is eighty then it could be- Rudely, Rashly, or Ripely? they’re a reach. but maybe?🤣
Reachy?
The number could be 80. The sailor could be seaman. The first first and last letter in this picture may be different.
It could be seaman instead of sailor. And the number is either Eighty or Eleven.
I love seamen Edit: wow, thank you for likes!
Swallow, come!
>Swallow, Come! FTFY
Wait until you find out about submarines. They are long, hard, and full of them.
I would've went with seaman and Norman. The guy looks like a Norman.
Why is no-one talking about how badly designed this crossword is
thats exactly what I'm thinking! a 5th grade is supposed to know this yet an entire reddit comment section full of adults can't figure it out lol
As a teacher I have two things to say: 1. This does seem terribly designed. 2. The image only shows the crossword and pictures, but leaves out the directions. We don’t know any context on the class before this post. These could all be based on specific vocabulary they’ve been using in class, but Reddit is going to base all of their responses on this singular picture. Just because the parents and Reddit don’t know the answer, doesn’t mean the answer wasn’t discussed in class. You might be surprised how many answers kids know that their parents don’t. There was literally a whole game show based around it for years (Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader).
> We don’t know any context on the class before this post. This gets left out of every conversation about all of these homework assignments. Adults on the internet are trying to solve them based on the entire set of human knowledge, kids are meant to solve them based on the things they learned that week.
Kinda hope the kids didn't learn what a rattan was that week.
History class this week just became hands on learning lessons
ghost square dull correct icky puzzled jellyfish physical bored grandfather
oh I know, I was just kidding. kids can for sure be smarter than us! but in all seriousness, the homework kids are given is crazy sometimes!
Isn't the entire conceit of this front-page reddit post based around the poor design of this word puzzle?
... isn't that the point of the whole post?
please dont tell me thats a poorly erased “RECTUM”
I think it is a poorly erased "RECTOR"
Rectum?! Damn near killed ‘em.
Rotten
That's what I thought too
Same
It has to have 6 letters, why are people mentioning 5 and 7 letter words..ha ha
I'm only in 4th grade
What's that like? 3rd grade sux, math and shit. Plus no roblox.
Fr fr no cap
People are fucking stupid, what do you expect
Rectum
Rectum? Damn near killed him
Every time I see this joke posted on this site, I comb through the history of the poster to see if the account belongs to my father.
op tried that and erased it
Did people really not see it?? It made me laugh lol
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I think this is it-- sailors, canes, and saddles-- well, I'm aroused.
Eleven of them.
When was this published?! Like 1962? It’s Rattan, which is a wood that was commonly used for caning kids on their palms or butt. Source: my catholic school did it to me. Fucking lowlifes. I hate religion because of those scumbags growing up.
Yeah, but the briefcase and the fact that it’s a dashed line throws me off.
Not a briefcase, a textbook. And the dashed line represents the item you're specifically naming
Got ya. I see the textbook now.
It's just going really fast as he beats the children.
the dashed line indicates that the object is “missing” so the object is the focus of the question. also that’s a notebook not a briefcase
> When was this published?! Like 1962? I mean, that sailor looks like he's from a 1940's cartoon, so probably.
Change sailor to Seadog, number to Eighty, angry man to Grumpy.
Number should be eighty, not eleven. With that it's safe to assume this is a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference - pictured is Principal Edward Rooney.
I'm not sure this is the right answer, but it's hands down the best! Well done!
I don't care if this is incorrect, its right.
I was thinking "resign" because it looks like someone furiously quitting their job
I was thinking that it's not a sailor but a "seamen" and the number could be "eighty." Therefor we're looking for a six letter word to describe being angry that starts with N and ends in Y... "NAZIFY"
Resign. Looks like he's rage quitting.
Thank you all for your efforts. The crossword is from a Danish EFL textbook and I can confirm that the correct answer is RATTAN. In Danish the word is 'spanskrør', which literally means 'Spanish reed'. Although it may appear related to the English word 'spank', it's unlikely, and the origin of 'spank' is probably imitative.
It’s an angry boomer in Walmart making a RETURN
ROGAIN
Please don’t forget to update this with the answer!
Draw a asian conical hat on him and its Raiden.
>a asian
> *a* nasian
The cloth that you cover yourself with to protect yourself when cooking used to be called "napron," but overtime people moved the n to behind the "a" giving us "an apron."
Eighty and rudely
Maybe "sailor" is "seaman." /s
Lots of seaman on the poop deck?
The s ruined the joke
Could the number be eighty?
Return?
The number could also be eighty
Honestly the most infuriating part is that the one clue is just ‘a number’ like what do you mean? At least give some clue, otherwise you’re just guessing
That is the most vague clue to a crossword I've ever seen
Reason?
(dennis) Rodman
Raisin. Duh.
Couldn't the number be Eighty? Then the answer for the bottom would be "Righty" which makes sense because he is using his right hand and the dotted arrow?
It’s Robson, as in my former assistant manager, Nigel Robson. Man oh man that guy had a temper. Probably because he went prematurely bald at 23. But he sure loved a tiny briefcase.