[RoosterRedux]

I got several paddlings in middle school...with a real paddle made just for such.

[Reverend Wright]

corporal punishment is step one in restoring some sort of civilization in the “youths” of both America and the UK.

at my boarding school we got canned with a rattan cane.

[ABN 505]

yep, the principal in my elementary school had a paddle hanging behind his chair and in large letters on it was THE GOLDEN RULE. We all understood what it meant. Also I learned what the expression “I will shake you into the middle of next week” meant because Mrs. Duke would pick you up by your shirt and Do it!

[who knows what evil?]

The paddle in our school (displayed prominently in the principal’s office) had three holes drilled in it to lessen wind resistance as it descended toward your hindquarters...

[BluH2o]

I got several paddlings in middle school...

Back in the day ... the punishment was being strapped. The strap was maybe 16" x 4" and looked like it was from a piece of conveyor belting. Typically five on each outstretched hand ... hurt like hell. Speaking from personal experience.

[Albion Wilde]

I went to public school in the 60s in a county that once had the highest school scores in the state. We had kids in our class who went on to become scientists or professors at Harvard, MIT and other prestigious universities. Now, however, it has become a blue county, and most of the graduates of the same school do not even go to college.

When we were at that school, the principal had a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it. The holes left welts.

[IluvmyKalashnikov]

When my family moved from Montana to Louisiana in 96, the redneck kids always thought it’d be funny to beat on the little Yankee boy. When they lost teeth and blood from ATTACKING ME UNPROVOKED, I was always paddled do fighting. The indigenous hillbilly kids were seldom punished. Thankfully, the attacks eventually stopped.