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Stan
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Date Posted: 14:15:18 10/19/16 Wed
In reply to:
David W
's message, "Re: for older baby boomers: phy ed coaches???" on 14:29:04 10/06/16 Thu
I was a very early baby boomer. I was in high school in the early 1960s. I don't recall ever witnessing any corporal punishment being administered in junior high school. However, as I reported in an earlier post, things were quite different in high school. It seemed to depend on which gym teacher you had. One of my gym teachers, the oldest coach there, I never saw him administer any corporal punishment. Some other gym teachers may have used paddling only sparingly, if at all. I only recall them, now and then, ordering a student to run a few extra laps around the track as a disciplinary measure.
However, one gym teacher I had, probably the youngest coach, resorted to the use of the paddle at virtually every class session, as I reported in my first post dealing with this topic. No one graduated from his class with his ass unscathed. No student, no matter how well-behaved he was, could escape the sharp sting of the coach's paddle. The coach could always find some excuse, no matter how flimsy, for disciplining someone. From my one "close encounter " with his paddle, I can testify that gym shorts provided very little protection from the sting of the coach's paddle. I noticed your post reported a similar experience.
I think we were all indoctrinated at the time to accept public paddlings as a normal part of the educational process in gym classes. I like the way you put it: to keep the student "focused". In my school, at least, paddling was never done in other classes, possibly because there were girls present in those classes. Any misbehaving boys in those classes would be sent to the Boys Vice-Principal's Office, and one could only guess what punishments were administered behind the closed door of his office.
I doubt any student ever registered an "official complaint" about the gym paddlings at that time. And, indeed, I honestly believe that, in some cases, there may have been a positive benefit to subjecting a student to a paddling in front of his classmates. What better way to tame the over-inflated ego of a teenage boy than by subjecting him to the humiliation of a public paddling. And I'm sure that those teachers who used paddlings sparingly honestly believed it was a legitimate educational tool.
Considering I'm a gay male with an interest in S&M, I still get "horny" when I recall those distant memories of corporal punishment in high school. However, in spite of that, I have no doubt that the gym teacher who used his paddle without restraint (no pun originally intended), was a homosexual pedophile and a sadist. When I went to my 20-year high school reunion, I was reminiscing with one of my former classmates (who was presumably straight). He had the same sadistic coach for his classes in gymnastics, and he still recalled the painful paddlings he had received from the coach. And I'm sure he was a well-behaved student. Thinking about that conversation now, I am surprised that he still thought of those paddlings as a normal male rite-of-passage. I guess if one is straight, it is difficult to think of it in any other way.
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