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Spankings? I hardly think that's an appropriate topic for public discussion. I mean... what? Not that kind of spanking? Ahem. Oh.. yeah, I knew that. Ummm... in that case, it was usually a paddle to the backside, although I had one teacher in third or fourth grade who was fond of whacking the palms of your hands with a ruler.  Not that I ever had to be punished or anything....  ::)
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Spankings.  heh heh.  I LOVE some of the converations that crop up on this board.  

I was never in a school that allowed corporal punishment.  Worst I ever got was detention, repeatedly.  I never learned...

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As the assumed definition of Corporal Punishment:
"Physical abuse with an object irresemblant of a hand"
Where the other extreme is technically physical abuse - that is now illegal in The United Kingdom, and has been as such for at least three years.
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Corporal punishment actually refers to the "physical" type of punishment which is now illegal.

I was an angel myself.  ;)
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I don't remember anyone ever getting spanked when I went to school, but being a rather talkative child, I had my mouth taped closed with masking tape a few times...

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I personally would hate that... my motor mouth and my super nifty piano playing fingers just would not handle that for more than six seconds at a time.

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Hey, I thought it was also! ;) I couldn't get in here fast enough.  ;D

We had the math teacher who would use a wooden paddle  on the guys. Than the principal called your patents.  I almost got it once for cheating but being a girl, i got a lecture instead. :P  Besides, my parents took care of the paddling at home!  :o  --ouch!

I was mostly a good kid in school. :)  

 

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I used to go to a Jesuit school. VERY rigid and strict. The Director had a paddle for minor offenses like chewing gum, bad grooming, or wearing the wrong colours on the uniform (yeah, it was one with holes). Then, there was the cane - for the bigger offenses like talking back or using bad language, fighting, bullying, etc. The paddle was used on the hands mainly (and I got plenty of that), but it was the hissing of the cane that made be a good monkey.

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My school didn't spank or anything.  The worse thing we would be threatened with was detention, suspension or expulsion.  I was a good girl though and never got in trouble ;).  Well at least I never got caught. ;D
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My school didn't spank or anything.  The worse thing we would be threatened with was detention, suspension or expulsion.  I was a good girl though and never got in trouble ;).  Well at least I never got caught. ;D
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The worst thing you were ever threatened with was expulsion? Yours must have been a tough school... unless the best is a lot better...

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My school was a joke, all of them.  I did many disrespectful and illegal things (like giving the principal the finger and getting caught with weed).  Any respectable school would have expelled me.  The most I ever received was suspensions and detentions.  Suspensions were always "in school" -- sit in a classroom all day and do nothing.  I would have rather just received a spanking.  I am not proud of my scholastic past.  If only I could start over again knowing what I know now.  :'( whaaaa, boo hoo... sniff
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WoW!!!!! It sounds like you turned out to be a fine adult in spite of your rebelious scholastic past. Damn, if I were your mom, I'd be proud.  :)

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My school was a joke, all of them.  I did many disrespectful and illegal things (like giving the principal the finger and getting caught with weed).  Any respectable school would have expelled me.  The most I ever received was suspensions and detentions.  Suspensions were always "in school" -- sit in a classroom all day and do nothing.  I would have rather just received a spanking.  I am not proud of my scholastic past.  If only I could start over again knowing what I know now.  :'( whaaaa, boo hoo... sniff
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My school was the exact same.  I spent many a day in ISS.  I got called to the principal's office more times than I care to imagine.  I got left in his office once, got bored and crawled out the window just to go free....

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I got left in his office once, got bored and crawled out the window just to go free....
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Funny! :P We used to throw 'help' notes attached to erasers out the windows.  ::)

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Spankings? I hardly think that's an appropriate topic for public discussion. I mean... what? Not that kind of spanking? Ahem. Oh.. yeah, I knew that.
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LOL!  I thought the same thing. I had to read it twice to be sure I saw things right, then came in to make sure.

I went to a Catholic school, and the Archdiocese (sp??) canceled corporal punishment literally days before I started school for the first time.  Those nuns were really creative, though.  They figured out quickly that while they couldn't physically punish us, we didn't necessarily know that, and they terrorized us.  One nun in particular always had a long pointer or yardstick in her hand all the time.  She could whip that thing throught the air, with a horrific whistle and slam it onto the desk literally a hairsbreadth from your nose. :o

Somehow we alway knew that she missed hitting us on purpose and nobody wanted to push too far to see what would make her actually hit us. ;)

The other teachers resorted to humiliation and verbal and emotional abuse so stringent that I find myself surprised when I hear of a Joe Ordinary going to jail for doing the same things to his own family.  Why did he go to jail and these nuns/teachers get away scott-free? :-/

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My school was the exact same.  I spent many a day in ISS.  I got called to the principal's office more times than I care to imagine.  I got left in his office once, got bored and crawled out the window just to go free....
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Lol!!! I confess - I had to pick the lock to escape from the principal's office. They locked me in, man!!! I waited like an idiot for about 15 minutes and said, "The Hell With This!". Oh, and while I was there waiting, I stole all kinds of office and school supplies in retaliation. I would be lying if I said I regreted it.  ;D

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lol - i thought the same. Guess quite a few of us have dirty minds really! :)

Well, physical/corprol punishment never actually happened in my schools. In primary school people used to get sent out the class, and at senior school we would just get detention really. If we talked to much, we just got moved to a less desirable table. One time at secondary school (was about 13), I was talking too much to my friend, so i got moved onto a table with 4 lads. Didn't really care about it though, cause i had to sit opposite a guy which i really liked! ;) Always think that teacher disliked me - but something good came out of me talking 4 once!  ;D

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lol - i thought the same. Guess quite a few of us have dirty minds really! :)

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I've taken a poll. The dirty outnumber the clean 320 to 14. I would name the 14, but I don't want to embarrass anyone.  ;)

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I've taken a poll. The dirty outnumber the clean 320 to 14. I would name the 14, but I don't want to embarrass anyone.  ;)
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*raises hand and yells out*  CLEAN!

Ohhh, so THAT'S what it sounds like when everyone on the board says, "yeah, right!" at the same time...  


Anyways, my schools didn't allow teachers to touch the students at all.  The worst we ever had was a principal who threatened to stomp on your nose with his golf shoes if you were bad.  In elementary school, if you misbehaved, you had to go sit on the wooden bench in front of the office and wait for the principal.  And sometimes they made you pick up garbage.  That's if the teacher didn't just give you detention.  In Junior High people had to write lines or serve detention.  By High School, I think they'd pretty much given up on the idea, and would just ask you to leave if you acted up in class.  I honestly never had a detention, though; because I was a total teacher's pet good student.  It almost makes me sick now, thinking about how good I was in school.  I guess that's why I'm making up for it now...  ::)

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When I was in the second grade a teacher spanked a girl across her legs with a yardstick and drew blood.(this, of course today would have a teacher fired, sued, and probable jail time.) My parents motto was, "if you get a spanking at school, you're going to get one when you get home too". I seen teachers swat kids with wooden paddles til they were rolling around on the floor. I also saw a kid get a yard stick broken over his back.
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In a way, I wish it was still done, I think a lot of the kids today could benefit from a few good licks.  I am not talking of abuse, but "attitude adjustment".
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I agree!  My husband is a high school teacher.   His main complaint is discipline.  Since "paddling" was taken out of the schools, the kids have just gotten worse and worse.  Use to, if the kids would get in trouble at school, they would get in trouble at home.  It seems that most parents don't even do that anymore.  In fact, the teachers here now have to teach character eduction, i.e., manners.  I think the parents should teach it, not the teachers.  

When I was in early elementary school, EVERYONE was afraid of the principal.  We were afraid he would spank us with the "electric paddle".  No one ever saw this electric paddle or knew how it worked, but we just knew he had one.  Ha!

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When I was in early elementary school, EVERYONE was afraid of the principal.  We were afraid he would spank us with the "electric paddle".  No one ever saw this electric paddle or knew how it worked, but we just knew he had one.  Ha!
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Hahahaha, we had a shop teacher like that when I was in school.

No matter how "barbaric" corporal punishment may sound, you have to admit one thing: IT WORKS!

I would say that 25% of the kids never act bad, if nosthing else form feal of a spanking.  55% of the others may do things on occasion, but know for the most part how to keep themselves in check.  They may get one on occasion, but nothing serious.

It is the other 20% that are the future criminals and troublemakers.  These types, NOTHING will keep them acting "good".  My interest is not in those 20%, but the 55% that will learn self-restraint, by fear of pain if nessicary.

I know in boot camp, they no longer hit recruits.  But they do something just as good.  "Thrashing" or "the pit" is the modern form.  You take a problem recruit, and exercise him to exhaustion.  It works wonders on Marines.

The problem now is that to kids, they would be exhausted in 5 minutes now.  Or they would just stand there and do nothing.  Recruits do it, because they want to be Marines.  They have a goal in mind, and do what it takes to get there.  And their minds are trained at the same time, to do what is said.  Without this goal, this would not work with kids though.  Most can't see the future past the upsomming weekend.

Nowadays, we have people thinking almost any form of punishment is "child abuse".  Did I ever beat my kids, HELL NO!  But did I swat them if they did something that was a danger to themselves or others, yes.  That is often the quickest way to train them.  It is effective, and it works.  YOu can tell a 2 year old why they do not run in the street, or why they do not play with the steak knives.  They will not understand you, and do it again and again and again.  Swat them, and it gets their attention.  I did not even have to do it hard, but they got the idea.  To them, the thought that daddy was upset enough to swat them was much worse then anything else.  Trust me, their diaper took all the pain away, but it made a point.

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No matter how "barbaric" corporal punishment may sound, you have to admit one thing: IT WORKS!

Nowadays, we have people thinking almost any form of punishment is "child abuse".  Did I ever beat my kids, HELL NO!  But did I swat them if they did something that was a danger to themselves or others, yes.  That is often the quickest way to train them.  It is effective, and it works.  YOu can tell a 2 year old why they do not run in the street, or why they do not play with the steak knives.  They will not understand you, and do it again and again and again.  Swat them, and it gets their attention.  I did not even have to do it hard, but they got the idea.  To them, the thought that daddy was upset enough to swat them was much worse then anything else.  Trust me, their diaper took all the pain away, but it made a point.
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I agree.  All my mother had to do was say, "Wait until your Daddy gets home."  And we knew we were in trouble.  Mom would spank, too, but PLEASE don't tell dad.  It wasn't that he abused us, it's just we knew he was the boss.  We respected his authority.  In all honesty, I probably deserved more spankings than I got.  When I was younger my granny spanked me only once.  I cried, but not because it hurt physically, but it hurt emotionally.  She had my respect from the beginning.  

One of my biggest pet peeves is to hear a mother keep threatening her child with some form or punishment and never carrying it out.  This is why the kids act like they do.  I knew that when my parents threatened me with, "you wait until you get home," that I knew I was going to get some type of punishment that I deserved for acting up.  Now all parents give are idle threats.  If grounding works, use it.  If time-out works, use it.  Whatever works USE IT!  Don't just threaten.  That's my two-cents.  

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So would flogging, amputation, or branding--which doesn't mean any of them are a good idea.  Beating a child for discipline makes for mean, nasty, vicious, violent children, who often believe that might makes right.  Anyone who hits a child, even once, for any reason should be publicly tortured to death.