Writing lines
Writing lines is a common form of punishment for children in schools, and sometimes also in the home.
The child has to write a line - usually a sentence such as "I must pay attention in class." many times (for example, a hundred times) without mistakes and in good handwriting. The lines are usually written in an exercise book, but it is also common (particularly in the U.S.?) to make a student write lines in chalk on the blackboard in the classroom.
Writing lines (on paper) is either given as an extra homework (to be presented by the next day), or the student has to stay after class to do the punishment.
Writing lines has three intended purposes: First, it is a punishment chore that takes effort, strength, concentration, and consumes time. Second, it is a writing exercise that will train handwriting. Third, it is hoped that the repetition of the sentence will burn its meaning into the child's mind, improving the child's future behavior.
Alternatively instead of repeating the same line over again, the child might be assigned to copy out the school rules or she can be required to write an essay on some theme such as Speech is silver but silence is golden. Her teacher may also require that she have her penance signed by both her parents.
Writing in different colors
The student's task can be made more tedious by requiring that she change the color of the writing from one word to the next, for example,
Young misses must heed their teachers.
This punishment is much more effective if the student is kept after school to write her penance in chalk on the blackboard under her teacher's supervision. Writing with pen-and-paper at home, she can cheat by writing Young one hundred times in red, then misses one hundred times in blue, and so on. Writing her penance under her teacher's direct supervision, though, will force her to switch chalk pieces between each word, very substantially prolonging her penance and reinforcing the educational message she is supposed to learn. On a blackboard, the two colors of chalk used will most likely be white and yellow, but if more colors are available her task can be made even more tedious. (Making the student print her penance, changing the color of the chalk with each letter, is another and even more tedious variation that might be used when the student is a "repeat offender" and changing color from word-to-word has been used for a previous offense.)
Example (joke)
There is a humorous cartoon in which Bart Simpson writes on the blackboard,
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
- I must not waste chalk.
Writing lines in spanking art
Writing lines is occasionally featured in spanking stories, novels and spanking videos. Sometimes, a character is made to write lines before he or she is spanked.
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