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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Paddle at school and the belt at home
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In catholic school the nuns had rulers but there was none of that once I went to public school.
The board of education!
Definitely. Lutheran School. It’s how they dealt with ADHD before the diagnosis existed.
I started school in 1970, and these were a big part of discipline. The worst thing was if they told my mom I got paddled, she would paddle me when I got home for good measure. I had one teacher that would stack wooden rulers and use that as a paddle. It made a really loud noise when they reverberated off your behind.
We should bring it back and use it on congress and the senate. They have been behaving badly lately. 😆😆
Yep! On my butt in 6th grade. Even now, I’m 60+, I think of those 3 men teaches as creeps. F you Mc Millian, and the other 2 whose names I happily don’t remember.
When I got home I told my dad and he went down to the school and told them you put your hands on my daughter again ill take you to court
I’m 66 and I can still feel the sting from that. Thanks Mr Tillman..
Oh hell yeah>
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Hell ya it was and the dean was a retired linebacker from the Packers, that joker could light you up! lol
Yep, Sister Maryann in 5th grade.
We had the cane.
I wonder how many teachers looked forward to giving the strap?
My catholic 1st grade nun had “**Board of Education**” lettering on it and it hung from a hook in the front of the class where you could always see it. To her credit, she was the kind of nun that would never use it but thought it was funny. Those were different times.
lol. Our principal had two, a ping pong paddle, and a huge paddle with holes. He would make us choose between the two. We of course would always choose the ping pong paddle. He would chuckle, and say nope! He would then proceed to whale on us with the big beast. Rot in hell Mr. Hale!
We had a teacher who had one made out of lucite with the drilled holes. He was walking through the gym one afternoon on his prep time. Some kid yelled out that he was a mother f’er. He wanted to know who said it, and nobody would squeal so he went to his room and brought that paddle back and lined up about 50 of us in our tiny little 60s gym shorts and gave every boy a swat. Some were crying, but I held myself together, although I had a huge blood bruise on the back of my leg that lasted for weeks. Ironically, the kid who yelled at him, avoided the punishment because he wasn’t dressed in gym clothes.
Many years later, I was taking a masters class in education, and I told that story, and one of my colleagues asked me the name of the instructor, and it turned out to be her father. She said she had never known her father to hit any of his own kids and was very upset to find out about that.
Yes, by a sadistic bastard who is probably burning in hell.
We has the strap
Yup. One kid being spanked told the principle he hit like a little girl 🤣 kid never shed a tear though. And, was last time that was done in the hallway with an audience. He was expelled not long after.
The echoes down the hallway.
I got it and my parents were piiiiissssed. They are very old school “but nobody is going to hit my kid” and with the (except us) being implied.
Yes, and now I have … let’s say issues
My dad made one of these. It has a longer handle for stirring the brine barrel when he were salting salmon for the smoker. I got whacked a couple times with it.
If a teacher hit a kid of mine with a paddle I would ass my fingerprints to his dental records so fuckin fast.
Fuck people who hit children.
The principle ended up using it in self defense. Police were called. I was 10.
Nope! Mom had one 😭😭😭
We had a piece of wood wrapped in leather. Everyone feared it.
Yep, in elementary.
Yup 1 whack =1 day iss
Oh Hell YES, in Elementary School… Learned the hard way and wasn’t even my fault… Screw you Fitzwater..!!
Thankyou Sir, may I have another.
Thankyou Sir, may I have another.
Ours had a VERNORS sticker on it, which someone had altered so it said “BURNERS”.
We had one that was made out of thick leather and it looked like a beaver tail.
Sister Mary mother of discipline used this. Really. Sister Mary.
Yep. 7th grade public school in Florida. I got 3 whacks because I had been written up three times: once for chewing gum, once for passing a note and once for whispering to a friend during a movie in class. I was a real badass and needed to be straightened out!
In our junior high school we had to take off our shoes, put our toes against the base boards and hold a dictionary against the wall with our hands. If you let go of the dictionary when you got paddled, the book would hit you in the toes and you’d get one more paddle. If you moved your toes, you got three more paddles.
In the middle of my junior year, I was getting swats with one just like this – until I took it away from him and quit school that day. Got my GED and went to college. 🤷🏻
*la tabla* is before my time.
however circa 2009 a teacher just straight up took me outside, held up both middle fingers and said, *THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE!!* and educated me with a full wind-up slap to the dome.
weirdly we had mutual respect moving forward. she whooped me, i stopped being terrible and i didn’t cry/play victim to admin and try to get her fired.
edit: california public school
Catholic school.This was a side arm for the nuns.
Yeah, and the toxic, bitter crone who used it was still involved in the education system for many years after. She should have been prosecuted for what she did to some of my classmates.
Not old, but yes.
2008, this was still being used in florida schools.
I was paddled once, they called my mom to tell me *after* they doled out corporal punishment and she played it cool on the phone, but about bit the principles fucking head off when she got there.
Took me home, told me what I did was wrong, but what they did to punish me should not have happened and will NEVER happen again.
Good woman. I miss her.
Fucking abuse. I often think about how many kids in my Catholic school were tortured that way and developed antisocial, dysfunctional behaviors as a result.
Principle threatened me with one ONCE. He called my mom to tell her what he was going to do and why and she said, “If you touch my child his father will be there to beat your ass. Send him home if he’s trouble.)
They told her she had to pick me up. When she found out this was over a shirt that she bought me for my birthday, that said “Bullshirt” with a picture of a bull, she gave that man the ripping of a lifetime. She was so loud the entire school could hear her, teachers were coming out of their classrooms to see what was up.
I didn’t have to go back to school for a week. 🙂
I had to walk a long way to school, I was on the cusp of districts with no bus available. I was an hour late once and the secretary would not let me in without an “excuse”. They would not accept my mom over the phone saying she knew I was late.I walked all the way back home for a note. Being in no hurry, When I got home my Mom made me lunch. By the time I got back to school it was after noon. I gave the note to the secretary. It read, “Wildweed was late.”, with a date and that was it. They said it wasn’t an excuse. My mom ripped them again, explaining she didn’t need to explain herself to the school and they could fuck right off.
They quit fucking with me after the second time.
edit: the paddling attempt was the second time.
My Dad’s had “BOARD OF EDECATION” printed on it. If he was really anger his belt would come off.
Yep. Some of the teachers had a goal of getting each kid in their class at least once during the school year: boy and girl.