I'm sure he's probably dead. I had no respect for him but absolutely respected Mrs. Anderson, the assistant principal who whopped me.

There seem to be a lot of coaches in the Jr. High/Middle School level that have bad attitudes, I guess 'cause they didn't make the "big leagues". Others, I'm sure, are dedicated to trying to make kids healthier.

Since spanking your kids is no damn near a death sentence..... makes me wonder what the intended purpose of those paddles is...probably some freaky stuff

I missed the era of teachers with paddles by a few years, but my moms mom had a thin leather belt and a wood paddle. I remember being spanked once with the belt and that was it, I was a quick learner. Dad did it bare hand.

I do remember going to a catholic school my first couple years and walking back to class from going to the bathroom and passing the principles door to see a junior high/high school girl over the principals knee with her proverbial catholic school girl skirt flipped up getting her rear end paddled... she was screaming and hitting at him and thrashing around, when the nun observing the whooping saw me gawking she slammed the door and I skedaddled back to class!

O Captain! My Captain! No J.P., I don't recall black leather padded spank paddles or 9 inch leather tawse floggers ever posted on THF before, not even in the OT... This reminds me of the time when I arrived home from a day afield with my waterfowl mentor, proud of my limit of drakes, only to be greeted by the wrath my children's stunningly gorgeous mom.

While she's a tall blonde with world class, magazine quality good looks, her seminary degree makes her a tad uptight. Her rage arose after our cleaning lady, the one she hired from her bible study, a woman of strong faith who's only sin was gossip, arrantly placed the long black rubber waterfowl feeding call on her nightstand that unfortunately fell out of my gear bag as I rushed to leave the house in the predawn hours. The same predawn, not yet fully awake hours, that I'm sure caused you to not notice you'd placed a link to adult pleasure toys in the OT..

Blue Moon

My mom came after me with a hairbrush one time. The mistake I made was laughing at her when I thought the interaction was over.

Yes, it was a pre-coffee post.

You seem to have had a troubled childhood.

I never got a paddle....but I did get my dad's leather belt a few times.
But I'm better off for it.

I used to make them back in the 70's.

It is criminal, literally, how an adult can beat a child (I did not say discipline I said beat because back in the day they were beatings not discipline), in some places without the parent's consent, and it is ok. If an adult did the same thing outside the "educational environment" they could go to prison for up to 20 years or more.

Sec. 22.02. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. (a) A person commits an offense if the person commits assault as defined in Sec. 22.01 and the person:

(1) causes serious bodily injury to another, including the person's spouse; or

(2) uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the assault.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the second degree, except that the offense is a felony of the first degree if:

(1) the actor uses a deadly weapon during the commission of the assault and causes serious bodily injury to a person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code;

That is not the whole statute, but the part of the statute I am talking about.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Let's just say:
3rd grade.
7th grade twice.
8th grade once.

I remember the shaved down baseball bat. Bend over the back of the chair, grab the seat with both hands and if you let go, the count starts over. The key was never to let go.

Only got one used on me one time in school. But yes I remember those. Saw and or heard them used often.

I knew if I got one used on me at school I would get a switch used later at the house. My Mother was the highschool cafeteria manager so she would be informed of my activities.

now thats just weird.

My cheeks start burning just looking at that picture.

The true stingers were palm tree limbs....

I sure your are correct but I never heard of a beatin. I did hear of getting paddled. I never did see teachers loading up on the children. In fact it was the other way around.

Been there, had those applied.

I got swats many times but I don't remember ever really getting hurt by a teacher. A couple of swats would make you think twice about committing the same offense.

Pretty common for guys to have about 4" wide bruises across their asses when I was in high school, I came home with a few. Never struck me as a big deal, most of them were from football coaches. Only got licks from the principal in HS couple times. It was always a choice, 3 licks or 3 days ISS. Taking the licks was a no brainer, who'd want to sit in a closet for three days.

True story. HS principal busted me and one of my best friends for skipping class and basically goofing off. He offered licks or ISS. I was wrong, I knew it, I took the licks and got down the road. My friend pitched a big fit. "you're not hittin me, I'll call my mom, this is BS", etc. Think he ended up with the licks after push came to shove - years later he went to the pen for cooking meth. Always thought back to that situation and how he acted when I'd here things about him occasionaly. His dad was MIA most of his life, his mom was about half crazy too. Figured it was all part of the puzzle.

You bring up an interesting point. If you can't get your message across with 2 or 3 cracks across the arse, you've already failed. We had one teacher, who was about 6'4 280 lbs. One of my class mates had forgot to spit out her gum after lunch. He hauled her out to the hallway, and after 12 or so crack's, we heard her crying, and him yelling at her to get up. She couldn't.
Busted her tailbone.
And to this day, I still have an issue with a male teacher whaling away on a female student.

should never happen

While that may be true. The Texas Education Code still allows it in Chapter 37: Discipline; Law and Order

Interesting thing is that in 2017 the Texas legislature made it an Opt-Out instead of an Opt-In for parents.
The only way for a parent to Opt-Out is to send in a written letter requesting that their child be Opt-Out for corporal punishment.

I'd have went twyc on that guy.