Were you ever 'paddled' in school?

[formerrepuke]

Of course, they don't do this anymore -at least in public schools- but once was enough.. and I got 'scared straight' because of it.

What I remember most from this era was the expression on kids' faces when they returned to the classroom.. faces all red, trying real hard to force a smile -as though it was no big deal (1970s).

[femmocrat]

1. Never. I was a good little girl.

Never even had a detention.

[Nikia]

32. I was too

the worst thing that happened to me once was that I got my name on the board. Oh no, anything but that.

[JANdad]

2. Oh hell yea!

4th grade, 7th grade and my Senior Year!

Requested a paddle over detention my senior year b/c one of my buddies ratted me out for going outside during lunch for a smoke...lol

[trof]

3. Just in college.

[reyd reid reed]

4. Yup.

When I was in the sixth grade. For talking to the girl sitting next to me at an assembly. I had to write 500 sentences, too.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Yeah

We had a sadist in the teaching staff, up through 8th grade.

[malta blue]

6. Almost....

We were living in Texas in 1979 and apparently someone told the principal that I was "popping pills" at the skating rink. Considering I was 10 years old in 6th grade, I didn't even know what popping pills meant. They called my mom to tell her that I was about to get paddled and she (being the "loony lady from NY") told them that if they harmed one hair on my head she would sue them. Obviously, I was not popping pills, someone just was trying to get my little nerdy self in trouble....

[texas1928]

7. Yep...

Got swats all the time. Last time was in Junior high. 2nd grade was the worst, got swats everyday for a whole six weeks. That teacher did not scare us. She was older than pyramids, and she used those paddles that come with the rubber ball on a string. It was like getting swatted with a newspaper. Now 1st grade, Mrs. Ritchie, oh lord, that woman could wail on an ass. She used a fiberglass paddle.

[Left Is Write]

8. Absolutely not.

Even if I had broken the rules - and I really wasn't the type - corporal punishment was not used where I went to school.

[cobalt1999]

9. Got paddled on my last day, make that my last HOUR of HS.

I got caught for something the last week of school and was supposed to get paddled, but I told the vice-principle "No way, I'm about to graduate, forget it". He said, he'd hold my diploma unless I came down for my punishment. Being a smart-ass, I told him he was bluffing and waved him off.

Now, as the final week wore on, I got more and more nervous. I was sure he wouldn't, but...maybe? I have all these relatives coming into town...what if? The last hour of my last day, I went down to his office. I told him "go ahead".

Three smacks later, and he said he was bluffing. I give him credit though, the punishment of worrying about his threat was far worse than the paddling.

[av8rdave]

10. Eighth Grade, by the asst principal with a mahogany paddle

He was a sick bastard. Really got off on paddling kids with that thing.

[xchrom]

11. yes.

[Squatch]

12. No, but *I* did paddle in school.

I was, after all, on the WW kayaking team.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'.

[SacredCow]

14. Oh, yeah....

Fundie Christian school that I attended for 3 years.

Once my partner in crime and I were sent in for the licks. He was to take his first, and when the principal brought the paddle back, he hit me square in the mouth and bloodied my lip a little. The fucker LAUGHED, finished with my friend then told me to assume the position. "No," said I, "I think I'll call the police to press charges for assault, you asshole." He went red, but made a quick and wise decision to spare me my licks. After that, I got sent to the office every now and again, but he NEVER proposed a paddlin.

[triguy46]

15. Nope. but every room in my HS had a paddle.

[LaraMN]

16. No, but in first grade, I forgot to bring a pencil to reading group,

and the teacher told me I would have to write with my blood.

Reeeeal funny to a first grader in a classroom full of second-graders...

[Strawman]

17. I wasn't but I saw other kids get paddled

I went to Catholic grade school in the 1980's. It was very rare by then, but it happened more than once.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

18. Not only yes,

but HELL yes! :)
Can't say that it really changed me or anything, I never got abused or beaten, but did get my ass warmed! :)

[conscious evolution]

19. Scores of times

I was sent to a fundie freep private school in the seventh grade.That place was a living hell.The first day there I was paddled for something stupid.Itgot worse after that.There are a couple of teachers there that if I ran into them today I would have a hard time not kicking their teeth in.Even if they are 80 years old now.

[tonkatoy57]

20. Yes, oh lord yes

I got paddled many times in grammar school and Jr. High.

My 4th grade teacher was a sadist. Her name was Cora Steel and she lived for corporal punishment. Her entire existence was centered around trying to catch 9 year olds doing something that would justify her punishing them. She was like a prison guard, constantly patroling the room, ever on the lookout for an infraction that would allow her to swoop down and punish, punish, punish.

For your garden variety, run of the mill transgression she would grab your wrist and hit you 3 times on the back of your hand with a metal ruler. After she had finished she would go to a huge chart she hung on the wall and make a mark next to your name. After you had 5 of these infractions she would paddle you. She had a 3/4 inch plywood paddle about 6 inches wide and 15 inches long her husband had made for her ( I don't even want to speculate about their private life). The paddle was sanded and shellacked and had 1/2 inch holes drilled in it. She would take you in the back of the classroom, make you pull your pants and underwear down (girls had to lift their dresses and pull their panties down)and wail on you. The holes drilled in the paddle ensured that you would have nickle sized welts on your ass and legs.

Gee, I had no idea I had such vivid memories of this.

Mind you, this wasn't a private religious school, this was a public school in North Carolina in the late 1960's.

[Katina]

21. yep

catholic kindergarten, and of course, I was innocent! :evilgrin:

[unpossibles]

22. asking about a paddlin.... that's a paddlin

yes, almost regularly, and usually for being a smartass and/or not shutting up.

Sadly, my older brother enabled me to withstand the paddling (also in the 70's back when they had speed holes in the paddles....), so even when they hurt, they weren't that bad.

Looking back on it, I wonder if ... oh never mind. I was going to say that now I enjoy a little paddling... :evilgrin: :spank:

[mike_c]

23. yes, but I'm most proud of my tenure in the fifth grade "Foolishness Class...."

Several friends and I tried to stage a strike in fifth grade. The teacher went for the principal, who made us drag our desks into the hall outside her office door, where we spent the next several WEEKS in the "Foolishness Class," forbidden contact with other students, no talking, no recess, etc.

:rofl:

[Rhythm]

24. The only time was 8th grade, in a parochial school.

I was the "new kid" at a seriously repressive fundie Baptist church-run school, and within the first week, i had managed to attract the ire and contempt of the 'popular girls' clique, with whom i had gym class. After gym class (about two weeks into the year), while in the middle of English, i was called out into the hallway by the asst. headmaster, and told that three of the girls in gym had heard me 'using profanity'(which, at 14, i never did), and i was to be paddled for it.

I was not given the chance to face my accusers, or the opportunity to present a defense of any sort. Just told to lean on the wall (about a 30 degree angle), and receive 6 strikes with a big wooden paddle.

6 times, you could hear that sickening, resounding "thwack" all the way back into the classroom.
With each strike, i thought about those girls, and didn't allow myself to make a sound.
The female teacher (a closet-case with an upper-body build like Arnie) seemed flabbergasted that she got no reaction, but my pride would not allow them the satisfaction.

I walked back in (the stares of scrutenty could ), sat down (without letting myself wince, even though my ass HURT like hell), looked over my shoulder, and smiled at them... with a LOT of teeth.

They didn't bother me again. I think i scared them.

[NC_Nurse]

25. No. I was the model child.

At least, as far as they knew. ;)

[ForrestGump]

26. Caned

That was how they did it where I come from. I saw some pretty bad injuries inflicted. I wasn't actually caned at school -- I was pretty much an exemplary student my whole life -- but at the school boarding place I hated so much. I was in trouble for fighting, but it was self-defense: we both got the cane. Not all that just.

I should look up the fascist who caned me -- he was a really macho blowhard and kind of a sleazeball -- and beat the crap out of him. I should do the same to the egomaniacal phys-ed teacher who took an instant dislike to me, used me as his prop when he taught judo, and otherwise took every opportunity to have me get injured at his hands, at the hands of others, or through doing extreme physical stunts. :grr:

[supernova]

27. I got rulered

I got spanked for running in the classroom playing tag, and tripping over the record player cord, unplugging it and crashing it to the floor. Had to be sent to the factory for repair. :P Third grade I think.

[noshenanigans]

28. I remember just getting spanked...

The principal had a paddle, but my second grade teacher (this was 1985, I think) thought I talked too much and I remember her yanking me up and swatting at my backside a number of times. I was only 6, man.

[Zoigal]

30. Taught forty years

K-HS (math) and never once touched

a kid except to give a hug. Guess i couldn't

even do that now. Sorry about all the paddlings, canings,

and such. There are much better ways.

[Okiojira]

29. Yep...

....back in 7th grade, circa 1984-85. Must have been on the tail end, so to speak, right before corporal punishment in public schools was done away with.

[libnnc]

31. Yep. With a yardstick in 2nd grade.

And in 4th grade there was a teacher who used to make kids bend over in the middle of the hallway to get their ass beating (with a 1/2 inch thick custom made paddle). Our 6'5 200+lb male principal boasted having an inch thick paddle with holes drilled in it.

Ahhh. The seventies...:eyes:

[Xithras]

33. Paddled once. Earlifted twice. Rulered more times than I can count.

I deserved the paddling...when I was in the first grade, I picked up a rock the size of my fist and banged some girl upside the head with it because she was hogging the slide. Our principal had a small oar with holes drilled in it, and I received several whacks that left me sore and stinging for the rest of the day. Nowadays, they'd suspend a kid and call the police for that.

In the second grade we had a teacher who liked to punish kids by picking them up by their ears. Very painful. I heard later that she was fired when she knocked a kids hearing out and the parents sued.

Between discipline minded teachers and obedience minded nuns in catechism, my knuckles got rapped by more rulers than I can remember. I was a constant talker, and I had a terrible habit of interrupting instructors, so my hands were constantly getting popped.

[Hand]

34. No, but...

Once my first grade teacher decided to humiliate all the kids with messy desk contents by making them bring everything in their desk up in front of the class so she could examine and rip up each item she didn't approve of.

Well, my turn came and away she went (my desk contents were a thoroughgoing mess, although I could always find what I needed). Only trouble was, I started giggling about halfway through, I think because the basic absurdity of it all started dawning on me. Man, the old bag was pissed. Also nonplussed. I think that was the last time she did that. Ghastly old harridan. :rofl:

[Scooter24]

35. Nope...But came close one time in first grade.

The teacher was a real idiot and I can remember her vividly to this day.

Supposedly it started when I showed my belly button to some girl. I remember being taken to the office and sitting in the chair while she went into the Vice Principal's office. They pulled me into the VP's office and was about to paddle me before a secretary came in and told me my father was on the way. So I sat back in the chair outside the Vice Principal's office and waited for my parents, not crying but a bit confused and nervous. 30 min later my parents arrived, my father walks into the office and tells me to go wait with my mother outside. I'm outside with my mother when the secretary came out and told me that I am free to return to class. I go back to the classroom, where another teacher had now come in to watch the class. I sit down and go back to work. About 30 min later, the teacher returns, noticeably upset, and apologizes to me and that was pretty much the end of it. I still don't quite know why I was being paddled. I wasn't much of an unruly kid.

First grade was the first and only time I attended a public school. My parents opinion on public school's isn't very favorable.

When I went to private school in Europe and to private school's in the States, paddling was explicitly prohibited.