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Anyone here went to Chamberlain-Hunt Academy or other boarding schools in the South?

Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:10 pm
Posted by FlyingTigerBo
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:10 pm
I heard from a guy I know that Nic Pizzolatto who created True Detective is making a TV series based off Chamberlain Hunt in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

For the people that don't know Chamberlain Hunt was a Christian Military Boarding School that did corporal punishment (beat with the paddle) before it closed down.

Growing up everyone I knew who acted up, their parents would either threaten to send them off to Chamberlain Hunt or St. Stanislaus

I'm sure there's some alumni on here. Anyone got stories. I imagine it must've been pretty wild.
Posted by Traffic Circle
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:12 pm to
Are the stories about bad rich kids or gay fantasies?
Posted by AlwysATgr
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:14 pm to
quote:

did corporal punishment (beat with the paddle) before it closed down


I suspect that part was common ground to almost everyone who went to school in the rural south.

FTR, don't know anyone who attended that school.
Posted by sidewalkside
rent free in yo head
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:14 pm to
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St. Stanislaus
That's the one we heard about in NOLA
Posted by farad
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:16 pm to
in the 60's it was sop if you acted up and were an athlete...coach would be the one giving out the licks...
Posted by sidewalkside
rent free in yo head
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:19 pm to
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beat with the paddle
BTW they were still doing this in NOLA Catholic HS in the late 80's early 90's.
Posted by RedPop4
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:19 pm to
My co-worker in the two thousand aughts, now deceased :( went to Lyman Ward in the 1960s. His father had died, I believe, and his mom sent him there; she would drive from New Orleans to Lyman Ward every Friday night for football.

That's all I got.
RIP Fred Reed
Posted by bigberg2000
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:21 pm to
quote:

St. Stanislaus That's the one we heard about in NOLA


Yeah had some kids that had gone there and transferred to my school. Never heard of the other one.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:26 pm to
There were two High Schools in the NOLA area in the 1970s & 1980s that boarded male students: St Stanislaus in Bay St Louis & St Paul’s in Covington, LA.

The observation that went around then amongst High School boys in NOLA or BR back then was “If you’re smart and you get kicked out of your local High School, you go to St Paul’s. If you’re dumb and get kicked out, you go to Stanislaus.”

Posted by olehickory1767
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:28 pm to
We played Lyman Ward in football for their homecoming one year and we joked that they had to take their sisters to the dance. They had an artillery gun they would shoot every time they scored and it would scare the shite out of you. The game ended with a few minutes left because there was a huge fight on the field; I watched my coach throw hands with their chaplain. They lost and had to go dance with their sisters and we went back home with our ears still ringing from that gun. What a game.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:39 pm to
Where did you go to school? We played Lyman Ward a few times, but I think that they were exhibition games.

Posted by riverparish
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:48 pm to
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that did corporal punishment


I didn't even go to a boarding school and we had this.
Posted by tigeralum06
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:52 pm to
Yeah my old man was a real do it yourself kind of guy on the corporal punishment.
Posted by Lawyered
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 12:56 pm to
You post this thread on Reddit/mississippi as well. ?
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:00 pm to
I got hit with a paddle once and slapped in the head once at Catholic High.

The Vice Principals and Brother Gordian didn’t play.

The lay people couldn’t touch you but the Brothers and nuns sure could.
This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 1:02 pm
Posted by bgtiger
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:08 pm to
I recieved a paddling as late as 1992-93 at a private high school. I took a paddling in my public middle school in BR back in '90, as well.

I knew a couple of guys who went to St Stanislaus. They kind of fit the bill.
Posted by LSUballs
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:14 pm to
Had a friend that went to Chamberlain Hunt and 2 that went to All Saints.
Posted by papasmurf1269
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:24 pm to
I went to St Paul’s in Covington for a while
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:43 pm to
A kid from my college went to Chamberlain Hunt. I don’t know what happened, but he went from being a standard geeky college kid to homeless in various cities across the country and died on the streets a few years ago. He was actually the valedictorian at CH according to his obituary. ..: draw your own conclusions.
This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 1:49 pm
Posted by armytiger96
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:47 pm to
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BTW they were still doing this in NOLA Catholic HS in the late 80's early 90's.


Not just NOLA and the paddle was optional!

And if we're being honest it was well deserved.
This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 1:51 pm
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