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When I was a kid, growing up in the 50's and 60's, I didn't worry about the paddling I might get at school. I worried about that one I knew I'd get when I got home, after my parents found out I got/needed one at school. Yes, it was a definite deterrent to any bad behavior at school.

I went through the same thing in the 80s and 90s. I didn't dare cross my crazy father's wrath. Then again, I never really did anything worthy of getting beat over. I think the worst I ever done was fight, and that wasn't too bad. I was more worried about making bad grades and getting beat. Now I won't lie, being a mischievious child in junior high landed me grabbing my ankles and taking swats and looking back in retrospect I deserved it, though at the time I was being rebellious to stupid systematic brainwashing teaching in public schools.