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Subject: Re: Visiting the principal


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Barbara
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Date Posted: 11:55:38 01/02/26 Fri
In reply to: Jimmy J 's message, "Visiting the principal" on 06:58:53 11/27/25 Thu

>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.
My first trip to the office was in 3 rd grade I had been spanked by teachers in the hallway I was running in the hallway and a teacher took me to the office I had to wait a 4 the grade girl was ahead of me after a boy came out crying she went in I heard the assistant principal talk and the three swats and ger crying the I went in I got a short lecture three swats year I cried I had a slip to readmit to class and I had three minutes to get to class so I couldn’t compose myself

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