Paddling in Schools

I never got paddled in school. My parents did believe in spanking, and I got plenty of that.

We had a few faggy male teachers who would slap our hands with rulers. Nothing too violent. It was more symbolic pantomime.

Oh hell yeah. Guys getting licks stopped a lot of their in-school antics.

I never got any, but knew I always could if I fucked up.

Yep. It’s sort of hard to believe now, but my southern public school paddled until at least the mid-90s.

No. I started school in 1985. While I heard of it (and heard of it happening), I never witnessed a paddling. It seems to be the kind of thing that was handled in the office behind closed doors. I certainly was never paddled. My teachers (and the lunch ladies, and janitor) all loved me. Of course, I was always the smallest child (even over the girls), and had a geeky, somewhat meek disposition (my how times have changed!).

Back in the late sixties, everyone knew which teachers paddled the hardest, and those who had a hole drilled into their paddles to increase speed. I was never paddled.

There was a tiny, thin girl in my third-grade class who talked too much, and the female teacher paddled her for it. The girl was hit so hard she had to be taken to the nurse's office, and then the hospital. Her hip bone was shattered. I was shocked the teacher was able to continue teaching. I was too young to know if there were any ramifications for it.

They spanked in my elementary school. Teachers seemed to use their hands. Idk what the principal used. This was the 80’s.

All of this talk is getting me hard.

I got swats all the time. Apparently I was very annoying.

No, I didn't grow up in a third-world country, OP.

No paddling but was locked in the closet in the classroom.

Our 7th grade gym teacher would sit outside the showers and hand out the toweling. He kept a paddle handy and would frequently smack your naked ass as you walked away trying to dry off. It didn’t seem pervy at the time, but it was the early 70’s, so…

Paddling is a long standing tradition in the Catholic school system. A few wacks with a wooden ruler was a close second.

The real bitches were the nuns who suspended bathroom privileges. EVERYBODY got punished.

I got paddled in kindergarten for talking during circle/story time. I was so upset and embarrassed that I faked an earache to go home. My Mom knew that I was faking and spanked me again when I got home.

Spank the bare ass, or spoil the child

Paddling occurred in 7-9th grade, boys only. The gym and shop teachers had paddles as well as the principal & VP. Very few of the academic teachers had or used paddles. Saw a couple of guys get it bare ass for snapping towels in the shower. We also swam naked so a couple of guys got paddled bare ass for horsing around in the pool. The hardest I witnessed was two guys in gym class got caught throwing tennis shoes at a guy on the trampoline. The teacher who was 6'7" and well over 300 pounds lit into those two with three hard swats. One left the gym crying. Their asses were almost purple when the took their shower. The one VP was known to reach for the paddle quite often and he usually gave three swats. I never got paddled but saw quite a few. This was the 60's.

Savage, yet exciting. . . .

They didn't have paddling in my school district in Washington State, but in elementary school during the 80's a few of the teachers would give a swat of the hand to the butt if you were acting out. I got a swat once from my 5th grade teacher for telling her to shut up. She told my parents, who made me go get a switch when I got home, and whipped the hell out my ass. Afterwards my mom made me write an apology letter to the teacher. That was my first, and last time being a little shit at school

I got paddled in 1st grade for sliding down the snowy hill next to our school. I landed right at the principal's feet, lol. All the students lined up in the hallway to watch the daily swattings. When they phoned my mom to tell her I'd be getting my ass beat, she refused to give permission for them to pull down my pants, assuming they meant my jeans. They were talking about my snowpants, so I barely felt the swats. I thought I was a badass for being the first girl to get swats that year. It was a point of pride for us to do something rebellious and be punished.

Where I lived, paddling was common all the way through high school. They were still beating asses when I graduated in 1987.

[quote] "No paddling but was locked in the closet in the classroom."

Were you on an episode of "Judge Judy", by any chance, R11?

No.

The nuns just hit us with the wooden rulers with the metal edges, usually just one the hands or arms.

One nun would sneak up behind you and push you out your desk.

And there was a priest who would whip you with his rope belt that had knots tied into it. For some reason this particular one was considered funny.

That is funny

Spank the child and create a new world of fantasy

R16, wishing I had gone to school with you!

R4 same here. We were paddled throughout high school and graduated in 2000.

We had a male shop teacher in middle school who was known to grope boys, feel up their crotches and butts, especially in the photo darkroom. I don't remember any boy ever complaining about it, LOL.

In the 1950s Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote a book on raising kids. Including reasoning with them rather than being an authority figure, Later Spock said he was wrong with some edicts in his book. One critic said "When they should have been spanked, they were Spocked."

I began elementary school in the northeast in 1969.

Spanking in schools was alreayd a thing of the past.

The former Confederate states still favor it.

Op is a child predator and bdsm perv

all these teachers that paddled children that weren't their own was definitely child abuse. they were taking their own frustrations in life on children who were incapable of defending themselves. sick.

Mr. Weinzelburg, my 8th-grade homeroom teacher was/is my kinda man. Dark and brooding, an ex-Marine who retained his jar-head haircut. He was a real authoritarian type I would accidentally -on- purpose wander into class a few minutes late, knowing I would have to remain late and be alone in the room with him. He'd shut the door, and I'd drop my drawers. Mr. Weinzelburg would roll up his sleeve, revealing his big hairy forceps and he'd whack my nelly ass with his paddle. I'd have killed for that guy!

Perv^^^

perv with a heart of gold

I remember this one kid who was told to bend over for a whack. His balls must have gotten back there somehow and the paddle smacked his testicle. He screamed so loud the whole school heard it. Corporal punishment was beginning to die out by the time I reached high school but it was still happening. I want to say teachers could only take one swing (not multiple) and paddles couldn't have holes in them. It's crazy to even imagine this kind of thing being around today.

I think it is still around in southern states. Possibly private schools also.

fraternities too

I was at RA (Royal Ambassadors) camp when I was 12 down in Alabama. One time they had us boys strip down and stand on a wooden palette together so our counselors could give us a "shower". The palette was only big enough for the 20 of us to stand on it with barely any wiggle room. Then the other boys started to play around and bump into each other a bit. I was SO scared someone would notice my boner, but I couldn't help it. Naked boys kept bumping into me while these dilfs were hosing me down and laughing.

R39 Forgot to add, it was a punishment because most of the boys decided they wouldn't shower for a week.

Not only is it still legal in many places, there are court decisions stating that you can't stop the school from doing it to your kid.

how about to your boyfriend?

Even our school bus drivers had paddles. If we got too rowdy they would pull the bus over to the side of the road, bang the paddle against the metal roof until they got our attention, then threaten to take us back to school.

Thats another legality issue altogether, R42.

Then arrest me now!

R43, Our bus drivers would call the principal for any misbehavior, and the next morning after assembly you were guaranteed to get two or three hard swats with the wooden paddle. The worst part was standing in line and hearing the boys ahead of you taking it before your turn.

Yes please!

Jonathan hamm can spank me hard

The technical term is now "impact play."

There no counties in NC which allow corporal punishment. The last two holdouts were Robeson and Graham. Interestingly both are counties which have large populations of Native Americans and these two populations felt it culturally appropriate to continuing the practice long most other counties in the state had prohibited it. Both counties prohibited the practice in 2018.

I went to private school in the south beginning in 1959 all the way to graduation. Paddling, or any other physical punishment, was strictly forbidden. Although there was one incident in 10th grade gym class. The gym coach was also a vice principal and one of the tennis coaches. He fancied himself a badass. On one day a group of boys were huddled together in the lower bleachers while the rest of us were running laps around the gym. Teach had told the guys to get off the bleachers and get running repeatedly but they had not budged. He became so frustrated with them he walked up to them, pulled his belt out of the loops and started swinging at them. They scattered like roaches. But after it was all over a couple of the guys had big red welts on their legs. The next day their parents came to school and had it out with the principal and the teacher. My mother heard from one of the mothers that they threatened to sue the school and the gym coach if he wasn't terminated. The gym coach was suspended that day and fired by the end of the week.

Pushy parents raise pussy children

paddle pussies

My best friend in jr. High got into a shoving match with another student. They both got sent to the principals office and got three swats each. I would walk home with my friend and when we got to his house he showed me his bright red ass. He said it hurt like nothing he's had before.

[Quote]they were taking their own frustrations in life on children who were incapable of defending themselves

Hmm, frustrations, yes, but of a different kind, R32.

Has anyone seen someone famous get paddled in school? Or heard about someone famous getting paddled or caned in school?

I grew up in the South and graduated in the late 80s from a private school. Paddling was still a thing. One teacher I had in elementary and middle school was famous for her paddling-it was never very hard, but her paddle was actually named “Betsy” and it was a “thing” to get paddled because then you’d get a chance to sign your name to it.

So fucking weird when I think about it now.

I graduated high school in the South in 2002, I know in elementary school paddling was still allowed. But, the parents had to sign a permission slip when they registered you. My parents never did. I got my spankings at home. The Principal was the one who did the paddling and he did it behind the closed doors of his office and he had to have another adult in the room to witness. It seems to have died out during my years in school, I think fewer and fewer parents would sign the slips so eventually they banned it.

They way the kids turned out after no paddling seems like they should have continued it.

I got paddled in fourth grade for chewing gum, by a cunt teacher who had it out for me. I wished cancer on her, and she got it and died by 6th grade. No teacher ever bothered me again.

I got whacked a few times on the knuckles in parochial school. This was during the mid 1970s. But I have heard of others who got their ass seriously paddled.

The old principal used her hand to spank, then she got an old bedroom slipper. The new principal, a real bastard, once punched me on the back of the neck, hard. All totally illegal these days, thankfully.

daddy made it hurt so good

My friend got paddled in the 90s at school in the South. He was hurt. I took him home (two doors down from me) and he said I should see his butt in case. It was red. He asked me to smear some Vaseline on his ass and said to put my finger inside him; he said it would help, so I did it.

Child abuse is no joke. Don't forget Luka, who lived on the second floor. 😥

sicko!

This video shows exactly how paddlings were given by our principal in Alabama in the 90s.

My 3rd grade teacher Ms. Faria was a crazy old lady that’d rap you on the knuckles with a ruler, wild-eyed, hissing, spitting and screaming, “One, Two, Three O’Leary, my first name is Mary!”

45 years ago and I can still hear her like it was yesterday.

R67, strange and wonderful

Catholic schools in the northeast in the 70s were very conscious of no corporal punishment. I think there were trying to change their image.

I went to school in the North of England in the early seventies. My school was like something out of a Dickens novel. Some teaches loved to inflict violence at any opportunity. Kids got beat for having unmatching socks in Gym class. I got whacked for not getting my sums correct. To this day I still think it is why i have anxiety over maths. I moved to the states but returned for one year in high school. Once the teacher signaled me out for talking in class. I was dragged from my desk to the front of the class by a lock of my hair. I couldn't help it I shoved the teacher pretty hard at which point he sent me to the Headmaster for a proper beating. The headmaster sat me down and said i'm not going to beat you because you're a Yank and already ruined.

The English love corporal punishment, to give it and to receive it

Nope.

My mother had scars on her knuckles all her adult life. The nuns gave them to her if she answered a question incorrectly. It happened over a period of six years or so. She was never self-confident in the rest of her years, so afraid of getting something wrong.

R73

Great article on a Texas school system bringing back the paddle after 20 years. They asked for input from parents, students and administrators. The answers are quite surprising.

If parents do not want their children paddled in school, then it's fair their child should be withdrawn from school after three events that would cause a paddling.

"Your kid's a miscreant and cannot stay among the other students who want to learn."

We had a long term sub in my fourth grade class That was a mean cunt. This was the 70s. She pull your ear so hard you thought it was going to come off. She smacked some kids right in the mouth. Complaining to the principal did nothing. We made a pact with the whole class to put tacks on her chair. She screamed when she sat down and we Saw a trickle of Blood run down her leg as she hobbled her way to the nurses office. The principal tried to bully us to eat out who did it but no one squealed. His conundrum was then he couldn’t paddle all of us without proof. That cunt sub never returned To class and our next Sun was great.

I was paddled quite a lot and it just made me furiously angry. I've heard from a friend who was paddled once and accepted it and supposedly learned something. Not me.

I'm 59. I went to a parochial grammar school and an All=Boys Jesuit high school in the Northeast. Never experienced physical discipline. In grammar school, I had a lay teacher in first grade, who threatened to paddle unruly kids, but never did. I had two nuns in second and seventh grade as homeroom teachers. They were lovely women. In seventh grade, you'd have to write an essay about why what you did was wrong. There were one or two lay teachers who should never have been near children. They were nasty, bitter, and angry women who would say nasty and even cruel things to children.

In high school, we had JUG..."Justice Under God." If you were late for school or class, the teacher would snd you to the Assistant Headmaster's Office. There, you would receive a punishment, like sweeping the cafeteria floor after school. For bigger offenses, they would mete out something likeminded but increase the length. You could be subject to expulsion for stuff like getting caught drinking or smoking pot.

I had a friend who had a potty mouth. I never heard him swear at home until one day when we were 11 years old he swore at his mother. His father was in hearing range and came around the corner. "what did I tell you about that mouth?" he grabbed him pulled down his pants, put him over his knee and spanked him a good 5 times.

The second time was when we were in 8th grade. He swore at another kid and the teacher heard. He grabbed his paddle and gave my friend two hard swats. I saw his ass in the shower at the end of class and it was quite rosy. Paddling was common in my school.

R81, the best part of guys getting paddled during gym class was seeing those red asses later in the shower.

In my elementary school kids would dread being sent to the principal because he was rumored to have an "electric paddle." Not until I was a bigger kid did I realize it was supposed to deliver an electric shock. My dumbass kid brain pictured a wooden chair featuring several mechanical arms with Mickey Mouse gloves holding paddles and swinging them at blazing speed. Too many cartoons.

Like R6, my private evangelical high school had a first year teacher who paddled a girl too hard and she had to receive medical care. He was fired.

The closest I came to getting spanked at school was in 4th grade (10 years old) when I thought Jill had stolen my EraserMate pen and I grabbed and scratched her to get it back.

She told Mr. Roberts, who took BOTH of us into the teachers' lounge with the paddle. I felt like I was dangling over a pit of fire as he asked her "Do you think he deserves to get a spanking for what happened?" I remember looking pitifully into her eyes because I was terrified, not for fear of the pain of the spanking as much as the stain I knew it would leave on my SOUL.

She didn't answer immediately, but she did answer "no" and I was so grateful.

At the time, I believed it when she said she had a similar EraserMate, but now that I think back, maybe it was really mine, after all.

R84 definitely deserved a few hard whacks.

R85 Possibly true.

Bend 'em over.

Stealth paedo thread.

Amazing how many of the "student responses" to the question of bringing paddling back to school seem so enthusiastic, almost as if the students are into BDSM? Or are they just wise asses?

Comments from high-school and junior-high-school students supportive of introducing spanking in their school include:

"I think it's good" "I love the idea!!!!!" "Bring back spanking" "Bring back spankings!!!!!!!!! I bet half of kids would stop acting the way they do if we had spankings here at Pampa High School and teachers would get the respect they deserve" "BRING SPANKINGS BACK" "That is a cool idea" "I think it's a good idea" "I think we should do it!" "We need this to happen" "I think it would be a great idea" "I feel like it should be brought back" "Let's get spanked, it would be better for the community" "It should be strike 3 and you get spanked" "Start using the paddle we need it too badly" "It's a pretty good idea if classmates misbehaved, they'd get 'spanked.'" "It would be a great idea, having the spanking law in school for misbehavior" "I would really appreciate if a teacher would spank me if I had a behavioral mistake"

Hahahaha

Remembering The Simpsons - wasn’t there a farewell lineup at the end of one of the Krusty episodes where they introduced some of the supporting players that day?

I think Corporal Punishment took a bow.

Paddling is a thing in the South because it's a region built on violence and slavery. It's a legacy of it. Beat your children, women and slaves into submission even to death and then tell them God loves them and everything is fine. Trauma bonding. Why do you think Southerners smile all the time and try to make others feel happy all time? It's all a cultural tradition born out of fear of violent retaliation. It's feudalistic. And it just builds complacency and fear of individuality and intellectual curiosity. And reinforced violence is okay in handling matters rather than discussion. Why do think Southerners love guns so much? They operate on fear and punishment and believe they're constantly at risk of something. I say this as someone who was beaten too as a kid for punishment.

I went to private schools, and they all did this.

No big deal, aside from the undertones.

Agreeing with R92--big connection between gun culture and the culture of corporeal punishment.

Why would any parent allow his/her child to be spanked/beaten/abused by someone else?

Back in the 60's when I grew up, paddling was common. It was pretty effective. It deterred most guys from behaving badly. Others would get paddled and that ended their bad behavior. There was a small group of guys that it didn't work on. They were frequently paddled and either didn't care or were just bad to the bone. Today behavior in schools has deteriorated and maybe brining back the paddle would help.

R14 And they wonder why we became such fucked up adults!

I saw my dad spank my brother once after he found out he had stolen candy. I was traumatized. Hearing him cry broke my heart. I don’t believe in humiliating a child.

Give them La Chancla!

My Boomer mother had the stuffing beaten out of her by her psychotic drunk parents, and it broke her for life. She's passive, codependent, and someone who believes taking a beating is a form of love. Her siblings - who were also abused - are now all drug addicts or alcoholics with criminal records and a dark view of the world around them. She never hit her own kids, and we grew up to be sober, healthy, educated adults who are breaking the cycle of white trash violence in our gene pool.

Children need rules, boundaries, and consequences. But no child needs violence.

People who'll solve a minor problem by hitting a child are often quite willing to solve bigger problems that way, too. Savages.

I don't see anything wrong in teaching children basic swimming techniques.

R101 I only WISH my school were rich enough to afford canoes!