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>>>When I was in school late 60s and 1970s in a rural >>>area paddling was very common in schools. In my >>>middle school the principal had a reputation as the >>>worst person to be paddled by. One day early n 7th >>>grade I found out why. The school had a strict >policy >>>on students using profanity as did my mother as the >>>saying to is ZERO tolerance. Like most boys back >then >>>I used profanity away from adults i think we felt it >>>was cool. >>> One day at the end of a class I was getting my books >>>and dropped them and so I said a forbidden word with >>>the last letter of K. The teacher heard me and >>>scolded me and I said no I said fudge. She said I >know >>>what you said and so do you get to class because Ill >>>not give you a late pass. I scooted on. Wondering if >>>she was going to report me to the office. >>> Well 10-15 minutes into the next class the office >>>buzzes in over the intercom and tells the teacher to >>>send me to the office. No question I was in big >>>trouble. I walked into the office, and the head >>>secretary knew me and my mom. She was pleasant saying >>>" hello Jimmy how you may sit there next to >>>Brenda. A 9th grade girl was sitting on a chair >>>waiting. I sat beside her, and she was real antsy >>>shaking her leg and looked nervous. Then he opened >the >>>door and called her in. >>> I was as nervous as she was. I could hear him a >>>little and then he stopped talking and for a minute >>>silence then I heard a very loud smack and her cry >out >>>two more followed just as loud or louder and could >>>hear her crying through the door. Then shortly the >>>door opened and she came out hands on her bottom >>>crying. The he called me in and I was shaking f he >>>paddled girls that hard I was in big trouble. >>> Then I saw his paddle it was a short baseball bat >>>with the ends cut flat making it flat and it had >holes >>>in it. >>> He said " you know why your here don't you" I >>>started to say ' I said fudge a.." " Don't try that >>>you know what you said and if you want to make it >>>worse keep it up. You know you are not to use that >>>language so I'm going to paddle you with 4 smacks. He >>>had me bend over a little table and hold the other >>>edge and he said hold tight. He held the paddle like >a >>>baseball bat with both hands and swung and smacked me >>>and I had never felt such sting and I knew why the >>>girl be fore me cried so much. After he was finished >>>I was crying like her. he opened the door and sent >me >>>to the secretary and she sad " here is you hall pass >>>dear, now go straight to class and try to stay out of >>>trouble" All eyes were on me when I entered class. >>>Later I was asked was it as bad as they said. It was >>>worse. I managed not to vist him until 9th grade. >>I went to a Christian school from 1975 to 1987 that >>definitely paddled up to 8 swats but I do not know of >>anyone getting it teachers in the halllway gave most >>of the paddlings I was a active in school k through 13 >>in middle and high school wings I was in several clubs >>and a cheerleader I got my share of paddlings we were >>stricter than public schools crying for boys and >>girls was normal. Crying was embarrassing boys made >>fun of boys crying and girls made fun of girls crying >>and sitting after a paddling was hard > Yes sitting was uncomfortable and in my school. >Teachers did most of the paddling. Those who laughed >and made fun usually hadn’t had the paddle applied >to their backsides. It was the female teachers who >sent us to the principal. The male teachers did their >own. I don’t think there were a limit on the number >of smacks they could give. I never got more than 6 >which was unbearable. Did your Christian school >require girls to wear skirts or dresses always? Did >you have someone laugh at you when you got paddled who >later got paddled and they cried? That happened with >me.

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