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Naughty Boy, John Lennon Was Punished by His Teacher at School Up to Three Times a Day

Naughty Boy, John Lennon Was Punished by His Teacher at School Up to Three Times a Day

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Naughty Boy, John Lennon Was Punished by His Teacher at School Up to Three Times a Day

Every teenager surely has their own story of mischief. This includes the former vocalist of The Beatles, John Lennon. As a teenager, Lennon was proven to be very naughty. He could be punished by his school teacher up to three times in a day.

A list of Lennon’s mischief during his teenage years was recorded in a document and was auctioned online on a website in 2013. As a reminder, Lennon was shot at the age of 40 outside his apartment in New York on December 8, 1980, by Mark Chapman.

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The punishment given by the teachers was due to Lennon often "disturbing", "pushing", and "not paying attention". The documents record Lennon’s mischief while he was in class 3 B between May 19 - June 23, 1955, and class 4C from November 25, 1955, to February 13, 1956.

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At that time, Lennon met Paul McCartney in 1957 and formed The Beatles. Their first hit, Love Me Do, skyrocketed in 1962.

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Two documents dated 1955 were saved by a teacher who was ordered to burn all the books in the school warehouse in the late 1970s. He saw Lennon’s name on several pages and tore them out as a keepsake.

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The sheets have been verified for authenticity by Lennon’s school friend, Pete Shotton, who wrote a book about John Lennon, In My Life.

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Peter Beech, Lennon’s science teacher, at the time said, "That paper is typical of John Lennon; he was a very naughty child." Nevertheless, Lennon was still considered to know his limits.

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However, John’s chemistry teacher, Eric Oldman, said that John could actually go further. "In class, if you can silence John, generally you can calm the whole class," said Eric Oldman.