What were some ways you had to work off your 30/30 or detentions???
Let's see, I scraped the fence a couple hundred times, cleaned urine-fouled toilets, tried in vain to wash laundry that smelled like Satan's arm-pit and...oh yeah, watched marathon episodes of the PTL club in the houseparents office. Yes, I earned it, but man, the therapy has been expensive. I still have nasty dreams about Tammy Fay...
Honestly, I was just being nice when I offered my substitute house father a hit off my doobie. Heck, he had long hair and listened to Van-Halen, I thought to myself, "this has got to be a friend of the hookah..." Ed dared me to do it, and I certainly couldn't let that roach pull my punk card and not respond, could I? Well?
you must have been really bad! 
All told I was on detentions for over a year and I was only there for 3 years and 2 months.
Clay,
I see that as a positive, you were good at something and kept at it
you must have been really bad!
All told I was on detentions for over a year and I was only there for 3 years and 2 months.
Boy did the Myricks 
to make me pick dandelions! I must have picked a million of those suckers. Let's not forget, mow the lawn! I remember the Murray's were pretty cool with letting us do dishes by ourselfs and they would wipe off about 4/5 hrs for that.
I think we had to paint the posts up at barn a few times too. Watch that darned zapper! Hey Tree! Remember hitting your forehead on it? ROFLMAO
Mr. P was a gentleman. All of us girls respected him. He was a good partner for Mrs.P. He was very calm. I am sure Mrs. P was secure in that relationship, he was very sweet with her.
Mr. P had a military bearing, I thought. He would school you, if you disrespected him. (or Mrs. P. infront of him) He worked hard in the barn and I remember he would wash our barn clothes after each shift. I always appreciated that.
I was one of those kids who had a come back and excuse for everything. There may have been a personality clash between me and Mrs. P. I can remember other girls liking her.
The best thing for me was to transfer out of there because my stress level and Mrs. P's went down considerably.
I really did (and still do) always try to do the right thing. I liked and got along with everyone, so really it was a first for me to just have someone not like me, for reasons I couldn't figure out. Believe me when I say that I am thankful for friends like you two (and so many others) who really made it easy to have a smile on my face every day. I've learned in life that you can't make people like you. But I still show kindness to everyone. Love you.
I am having a hard time thinking of you doing something wrong. I have to definately agree she must of had something against you. Maybe she was jealous of you. Some people are like that. You were pretty, smart, nice and always had a smile spite the circumstance. Some people just can't handle that. They want you to be misireable like them. Jessica had a teacher that was very jealous of her it was so blatinly obvious.
Were the Mrs. P and Kermit that you refer to the Plintons? All I can say is God bless you girl! They moved to Wyandot. I truly was a good kid, and she found things for me to be in trouble for. UGH! She is the reason I transferred out of her student home ASAP. I can't believe you worded it that "they put up with you". I really like everyone and get along with most people, but she just had it in for me and as a sophomore, I didn't stand a chance. I liked Mr P. though. I think he told her to leave me alone once in a while. 
Nobody's perfect! I acted up as much as any other kid. These are the things that I can remember I did. I was also very lucky not to have been caught!
I was also on conduct failure list 2 times for my big mouth. In my defense, those teachers were butt heads, and I have little patience for that...
But I feel sorry for poor Mrs. P and Kermit (Maizeland) for having to put up with me for as long as they did!
I was on 5 & 5 for disrepect, I remember doing dishes.
When I was on 30 & 30 for having some Wyandot boys in after hours, I painted the utility room, extra barn chores and dishes, polished brass, and buffed the basement floor. I banged out my hours in about 10 days & then I had to sit on a certain couch for 20 days with the other offenders. We played a lot of backammon. It could have been worse.
I never had any teacher/houseparent cut me a break for tears. I guess I don't cry in way that inspires sympathy.
I was actually on 10 and 10 once!! I got in trouble for punching Marcy Cielecy for messing with my clarinet. Verna Royer put me on 10/10, but I don't think I did one hour of it. Of course, we all laughed about it later, but that clarinet was expensive!!!
I remember my intermediate houseparents loved having us do wild and crazy things to work off our D's especially when out housemother was in one of her moods and went upstairs and threw all of our belongings out of the window and we had to go outside after school and find them I used to complain to anyone that would listen because she loved to throw our posters outside while it was raining and thoes things were all that alot of us had when they retired and i moved to senior division I was only ever on 30/30 once and that was for a fight that I was in with Kevin Bright and my housefather witnessed the whole thing and made us do the barn alone boy that wasn't fun
as far as i know each studen home takes care of its own, with rider mowers and one power push. the Milt no longer has a ground maintainance departmant for taking care of the common areas - lawn care is subcontracted out.
as far as the edging / or using manual shears, i don't know, but the dreaded School Appreciation Day is in the spring - and they mostlikely do it just once a year now... instead of the bi-weekly saturday chores we use to have...
When did they quit polishing the roasting pan till you could see yourself? Along with all the other meal bus pans. I was down to the ponds and by a couple student homes, and they don't even edge the sidewalks and driveways anymore. Does the school even have the manual grass shears anymore? That was probably worse than push mowing the lawn.
that if what we got when we were on Detentions was eased up because of the crying I would hate to see what you guys had to do.
Want to elaborate Bill?
I do have to say that I got off easy when I was in trouble because mine were primarily for merits, I'm not the neatest person around. I am a clutterer.
I got to brush my housemother's hair when she ran out of things to do for D's. But that was because I was so loveable. How can you be mean to someone so loveable right?
Others found a way but my housemother was awesome and no I won't tell you her name because she still works there.
Let's see polishing all of the brass in the house, cleaning the grooves in the stairs with a toothpick, scraping and painting and pretty much anything you can think of in the barn. except the spreader thing I don't think I ever did that.
My least favey sunday deeshes!
When I was at Glenview I was busted for drinking. Myself, Joe Balerezo, Dennis haubrick , and Brian woods were all allowed to go on a walk. When we did, it was to the liquor store in hershey. We got someone to buy us the big economy bottle of Southern Comfort. We drank it on the walk back to Glenview, whereupon the herdsman Mr. Stuart asked hus to help him move a refrigerator down a flight of steps. lets just say it didn't go too well.
The housemother , Mrs. Afrika by training was an R.N. she went around when we were asleep and smelled our breath. When questioned the next morning, I was the only idiot that admitted to drinking. After seeing Bill deliberty I got 45 and 45. I essentially told the houseparents that I wasn't doing squat to work off my hours. six months later I had a heart to heart talk with my housefather , Lou Afrika and told him that being a functioning alcoholic like he was wasn't a good example.. After his anger subsided he asked if i was ever going to drink again while in his student home and I said no. Two days later I was off detentions with maybe doing about maybe 10 hours worth of work from the 45/and 45. 1982 was a "loooooooong" year to say the least. Being true to my word I never drank again in that student home.
Jack-Were the Hawks an older couple - I believe his name was Elmer and can't recall her name
Don't think so he use to be a herdsman that hurt his elbows really bad (had to use braces when ever they flared up) and became house parent to stay away from barn work.... wasn't even a milt and played the sick card to get out of barn....
either way they were in there mid 40ities when i had them (83-84 school year).
I was just remembering some of the ways that we had to work off our "trouble" at student home Lenape, and other student homes I was in. I would love to hear how others worked of their D's???