[SamAdams76]

They still had corporal punishment when I went to elementary school. The principal kept a paddle in his office. Boys and girls were paddled. If it was a girl, the only difference is the principal would have his secretary do the paddling. But the girls had it harder. The principal was a kind man but the secretary was mean and had a face like a prison guard - in Soviet Russia.

If you got paddled by the principal or his secretary, you didn't dare tell anybody at home because if you did, your mom or dad would hit you even harder.

Don't remember any discipline problems in that school. When I got to junior high school, it was the start of the 1970s and a whole different world. By time I got to high school in the late 1970s, it was like "Welcome Back Kotter" with the inmates running the asylum. Every class was disrupted by punk kids in leather jackets and nobody learned a damn thing.

[Alas Babylon!]

We STILL have corporal punishment in Alabama. My son got the whiffle paddle last year from the principal for being a wise-guy and I approved!

He hasn’t done it again. Not my son, nor the principal. As my boy told me, once is enough!