Între prevederile Regulamentului şcolar şi dorinţa de emancipare: conduita elevilor în perioada interbelică
Between the Stipulations of School Regulation and the will to emancipate: Students’ conduct in interwar Romania

Summary/Abstract: During Interwar Romania, young generations and, amongst these, highschool students have come under the intense scrutiny of the state authorities. Their behavior, their language, their clothes and their conduct in public spaces have become the focus point of the school regulations. This type of normative adult speech created an ideal moral profile of the students, in an attempt to discipline and control the youth. In doing so, school authorities had two important partners, members of the society and police forces. Despite the effort to ensure a strict monitoring and control of the students, archive documents prove that the authorities could not prevent all unwanted behaviour; different forms of indiscipline were in fact part of the school's activity, as well as the act of severely punishing them. Romantic relationships and sexual offences were strictly repressed by the school representatives, as the students were not aloud to engage în such activities during their teen years. However, despite the restrictive terms of the school regulations, statistic data has shown that the first sexual contact for an important part of the students at that time happened during highschool years.

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