Whipping

[Wayne Goodwin]

Back when i was in Elementary School we had some rather stern teachers that really used the paddle a lot when whipping . One whipped more than he should . One day he went home and killed himself . Most kids in his class were relieved .

Do you think some teachers went overboard when punishing students especially in those days ?

For you teachers . How did you punish your students if at all ?

[Wayne Goodwin]

Once in the 4th grade we had a teacher that punished this girl with a paddle . The girls dress was too thick with petticoats that the teacher wasn't doing any good . She then raised the girls dress to the point of seeing her panties in front of the whole class then spank her 5 or 6 times .

[crestofwaves]

The kids cry and run to their guidance counselors or case workers if we raise our voices at them, now.  Paddle?  we'd be in a capital punishment trial.

The very best way to make sure that I didn't have behavior problems was to make class interesting and to really know what I was talking about, i'e to prepare for the class.  Mostly I didn't have a lot of problems, but when I did, I would lower and soften my voice and make my "suggestion" that the behavior stop.  Or I would take the perpetrator into the hall and talk to him.

However, I taught high school. There were times when I would lose my cool and yell, I've thrown kids out--all the things a "bad" teacher would do and I knew that when I reached that point it was I, with a capital I, who was out of control, so then I made sure to carry on the next day, or the next minute, as if nothing happened and there was no bad feeling in me.

As I look back through the years, I really only had a few classes that were bad, and I always managed to get them to do some work, so, whatever I did, worked!

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[blithe spirit]

We have what he call a progressive discipline plan that involves a series of things but no whipping and parents are informed and consulted along with the kids..

I was hit with a ruler on my left hand for using it to write with..my Mom took care of it..stopped as soon as she found out.

My brother was spanked one time for picking kumquats on somebody's tree at our bustop and then throwing them at cars..The principal called my Mom and went to the office and watched the principal spank him..only time it ever happened.

[dwalt]

If you were late to gym class ( which I was alot) the gym teacher was standing where you had to walk by with a paddle and would pop you with it as you went thru.  I didn't tell my parents because I would have gotten popped again by one of them.

[Snagg]

In fourth grade, I watched an outraged nun grab a baseball bat and try to brain a fellow student, a nine-year-old kid with some kind of asthma-like condition, who couldn't stop coughing after she'd ordered the class to be silent.

Due to that and other similar incidents, I came away from catholic school with a deep belief that corporal and capital punishment say a lot more about those who practice it, than those who receive it.

[frenchy]

well i went to catholic school too snag and i could tell some stories .. my mom and dad split when i was 8 so my mom moved a bit and i was in 4 different schools by the time i hit 5th grade .. and i was expelled from catholic school when i was in the 5th grade .. what a difference from catholic school to public school .. we had a gym teacher in public school who would paddle us if we messed up .. and then we'd have to say thank you sir may i please have another .. if we didn't he'd give us two more .. kinda like simon sez or somethin .. i think the main difference between the two schools tho outside of the gym teacher was catholic school didn't hesitate to whack you .. and whack you good .. i think some of em were sick bastards .. and nuns ?? i was in the first grade and it was september .. i was still 5 and i was talkin on the line to go to the cafeteria for lunch .. so the nun told me to stay in my seat for lunch .. so the class left and she left me there .. problem was the cafeteria caught on fire and they evacuated the school .. i was 5 and couldn't tell time yet but it seemed to me like they were standin outside in the schoolyard for an awfully long time .. the firemen came around to check the classrooms but never opened any of the doors .. they just knocked .. i said who is it ?/ but they were already gone .. so i just sat there .. about two hours later and they got the fire under control and they let the kids go back to their classes .. luckily it was only the cafeteria that was on fire .. the nun forgot she told me to stay in the class and almost shit when she saw me still sittin there .. so what did she do ?? she lied . she said i told you to get on the end of the line .. almost sounds right don't it ?/ till you hear me say but i was already on the end of the line .. and then came the .. don't you sass me .. thunk thunk thunk .. so at the tender age of 5 what did i learn that day ?? that nuns lie .. and don't you call em on it either .. it was never a debate in catholic school . it was tyranny plain and simple .. here's a song that hits the nail right on the head .. another prick in the wall ..

[Snagg]

That's actually why I was expelled from the school I attended...During catechism class, they'd be telling us all this weird shit that they insisted was absolutely factual and true - And (innocently, at first), I'd hear something that made NO sense at all, and then commit the mortal sin of asking the teacher, in front of other students, to answer a simple logical question about the fairy tale she was trying to drill into our heads - An answer, I quickly learned, that none of these supposedly wise, learned and saintly religious fanatics actually had...

So, a paddling, a slap in the face, a trip to the principal's office where I'd get another paddling for my "insolence" and "sinfulness", and then back to class, as a lesson to the rest of the herd about what happens when you ask questions. I'm sure that worked on some of the other students - But I already went through far worse at home, and those nuns and priests just didn't scare me...

But, I understand how they play the game - They figure the odds, and they know that for every doubter and skeptic like me that they help create, they get hundreds of frightened and obedient life-long believers. What scares them is that people actually do sometimes think about stuff (especially when they're out of the reach of paddles, birch whips and public humiliation), and those "teachers" have no way of telling how many of their former terrorized charges are holding decades-old grudges, hearing the logical and non-superstitious facts that those bastards have tried to deny for soooooooooooo long....

[Wayne Goodwin]

Back in the third grade my teacher would tell everybody to take a nap  .She would walk up and down the aisle and if you opened your eyes she would wap you on the side of ass or leg with a pad a ball paddle . Girls or boys got the same treatment . One time we were on the bus going home . This girl named Patricia was jumping up and down . Her dress would fly up showing her panties . Well  when we got to her bus stop . I had my leg sticking out in the aisle . As she walked by me . my foot kinda caught her dress and up it come . Dang girl went straight to bus driver and told her what I had done . Next morning at school , principal called the girl and me to his office .
 Got there and he looked unamused . I told him what she was doing . Now our principal had this paddle with holes bored in it . Looked about two foot in lenth . Made me bend over and whap whap whap . Then she was told to bend over and she got same treatment . Sent us back to our rooms . Tears had dried up buy the time we got in class . Learned one thing that day , Don't lift a girls dress up unless she tells ya too , even if ya an old man ...

[blithe spirit]

On a related topic..do any of ya'll remember the mimeograph or ditto machine..usually found in the office. It was the precursor of the copy machine..anyway it had a hand crank that, when used, made a rhythmic whop whop noise. My brothers told my younger sisters that it was an electric spanking machine and the principal would use it to spank kids. Kept the girls terrorized for several years.
I used to love the smell of the mimeo ink...would always volunteer to go pick up the copies so I could get a good snort of the ink. Sometimes my teacher would rub the purple off my nose if I sniffed too close...ahhh the good ole days..

[Wayne Goodwin]

I enjoyed that ink also ...

[frenchy]

ooohhh vickie .. you little ink sniffer you ..