Were you ever paddled in school?

[Teacher03]

Yep, got paddled a couple of times in high school for being a second or two late for class. It was that or detention and there was no way I was going to serve a detention. After the paddling, the principal would make me shake his hand. So after the first time, I would spit in my hand just before walking in. Immature I know, but it made me laugh.

 

[checkwriter]

Never paddled. I did have to go down the hall to the school kitchen to fetch the big wooden spoon once. But that was for someone else's "benefit." And yes, I felt like a complete heel for having been forced into becoming an accomplice with Sister Antonia, and still do.

 

[Grand Canyon]

More time than I can count.
I am 43 and went to school in Texas

 

[RussellDisney]

I just noticed this thread and had to reply.

I'm a guy, in my late 30's and grew up in KY, so of course I did!!! A few times in elementary school that were really no big deal - weak-armed lady teachers were the best! Jr. and Sr. high were a bit different - strong-armed men teachers are the worst!!

It's funny to think about now, but man it hurt back then! I'm not an axe murderer or anything so I don't see the big deal in it.

 

[Crankyshank]

I was whacked with a ruler on my hand.

 

[druidia]

Oh yeah, we had paddling and more.

In first grade, my teacher was downright abusive to the kids. I was also a talker. I always got straight A's, but D's in citizenship. I talked too much, bothered other kids, wouldn't stay in my seat. I don't recall what I did to deserve this, but my teacher picked me up by the inside of my arm and dug her nails into me so hard she left 4 dark finger bruises and cuts from the nails. My mom noticed it a day or two later and freaked, but I don't know what she did about it. Turns out I was bored. They sent me to gifted and I was out of her class for a few hours a week. I don't think she came back the next year.

Same school, second grade, big old crazy woman teacher. When she was mad at 2 students who constantly disrupted class, she would punish everyone by making us stand by our desks in complete silence with one leg up like a flamingo and your arms out to the side. If you couldn't keep your balance, she spanked you. She had these red flexible yardsticks that she used to beat the students with. One girl in particular was beat with it almost every day just for talking. This was around 1980.

I told my mom and my aunt about it because my younger cousin was going to be in her class the next year, but they blew me off. I don't know if she still did it or not.

We had paddlings for the boys only all the way up until I graduated. Public, not Catholic or private school.

 

[Hopper0517]

Yes I got paddled at school and to this day I say OUCH!

I went to one of those grade schools with nuns. The classroom teach was permitted moderate use of CP. But if you behaved badly enough the teacher could request the principal to paddle you. At my school a paddling was a serious spanking.

In second grade my teacher nominated me for participation in the program. The principal brought me and the paddle back to the classroom. After leading the class in a discussion about why the class thought I should be paddled I was made to bend over the teachers desk and the principal went to it. When it was done my posterior felt like it was on fire and I got the crazy idea that if I could get something touching it, it would feel better. I began to run to my desk but that was all the way in the back of the room and I wanted relief NOW. Without think my hands flew to my backside and grabbed the corresponding cheek. When this didn't put the fire out I spontaneously began to hop think that maybe I could get away from the fire. It didn't work but the class immediately erupted into enthusiastic laughter. I was permitted to finish running to my seat amidst laughter, smiles and claps. The principal simply left the room. My classmates recounted this story for the rest of the time we went to school together.

OUCH and OUCH! I would do anything to avoid a paddling.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Nope not myself, but several classmates did in grade school for various things. I didn't want that to happen to me so I tried to behave.

The thought of it really was a deterrent.

 

[kamik86]

Zombie thread... 7 years old.

 

[Hrhpd]

Yes I got paddled at school and to this day I say OUCH!

I went to one of those grade schools with nuns. The classroom teach was permitted moderate use of CP. But if you behaved badly enough the teacher could request the principal to paddle you. At my school a paddling was a serious spanking.

In second grade my teacher nominated me for participation in the program. The principal brought me and the paddle back to the classroom. After leading the class in a discussion about why the class thought I should be paddled I was made to bend over the teachers desk and the principal went to it. When it was done my posterior felt like it was on fire and I got the crazy idea that if I could get something touching it, it would feel better. I began to run to my desk but that was all the way in the back of the room and I wanted relief NOW. Without think my hands flew to my backside and grabbed the corresponding cheek. When this didn't put the fire out I spontaneously began to hop think that maybe I could get away from the fire. It didn't work but the class immediately erupted into enthusiastic laughter. I was permitted to finish running to my seat amidst laughter, smiles and claps. The principal simply left the room. My classmates recounted this story for the rest of the time we went to school together.

OUCH and OUCH! I would do anything to avoid a paddling.

to the DIS. You must have been doing a search on school paddling and this zombie thread popped up. it was a good read, love some of these old threads. Anyway, hope you enjoy it here.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Zombie thread... 7 years old.

Yup, but I'll chime in. No, was never paddled at school. Oddly enough, in grades K-6, my dad - as the only male teacher in the building - usually got the paddling duties. And as the PE teacher at a small school, he wasn't even there every day. So, one might get in trouble on Wednesday, but not get your seats until Thursday.

And I definitely would have gotten it at home, too - ironically, from the same person LOL

 

[MrsDuck]

Never.

 

[Minnesota!]

Ruleron knuckles, yes. Thrown against a blackboard, yes. Pencil boxes destroyed because you were talking, yes. I don't remember any paddling.

Still the best teacher I ever had...and I wish there was more forceful discipline in schools still.

 

[pryncess527]

Yep, once in the first grade.

 

[lynxstch]

Zombie thread... 7 years old.

and what a surprise, brought up by a brand new poster, lol

 

[Turn the Page]

I was never paddled, but I was humiliated in 3rd grade. I still remember it clearly, and it still makes me sick when I think about it lol. I was REALLY quiet and shy, my friend Karen had to go to the bathroom during recess. She was scared to go in by herself because the classroom lights were off during recess. The bathroom was a single person bathroom inside the classroom. I went inside with her and waited at the door (she left the door open like 6 inches and was talking to me). The teacher came in and SCREAMED at me asking me what I was doing (I was standing outside the bathroom door for crying out loud..) She dragged me by my ear to the cafeteria where the "big kids" were eating (5th and 6th graders) and loudly told the male principal that I was in her bathroom with another little girl. I don't really know what the big deal was, I wasn't really IN the bathroom, just waiting there lol . I really hated her. I don't think they ever called my mom, but I just remember wanting to throw up because I was so embarassed, and didn't really know what I did wrong.

I guess I could see if I was actually in there with her, but we were two 8 yr old girls, and I was outside of the door I didn't get it.

Now if you had just been about 15 years older and at a bar it wouldn't have been a problem at all. Par for the course really.

 

[kamik86]

Since everyone is still playing I'll chime in though.

No I wasn't. All the people I know that were are older then me by a considerable amount. This was already something that would get a teacher fired by the time I was a kid.

However schools are now even more lax on punishment then when I was in school

In elementary school punishments could be

• Staying in after school or during recess to help the teacher clean the boards, the desks, sharpen pencils etc.
• Calling parents (and for most of us this was a huge threat)
• Having to write an extra report on what you did and why that wasn't acceptable behavior
• Having to just stand at the wall during recess
• Not getting to eat lunch with the rest of the grade but having to eat in a separate room with just a chaperone where no talking was allowed.
• Losing special class privileges (especially if you were causing problems in that special class, like art or music you might get sent to the office and miss out on the fun classes).
• Loss of privileges like going to school dances and field trips.

In middle and high school

• Teacher detention
• School detention (which was longer and went on your record)
• Loss of privileges such as going to prom, after school activities, and field trips
• IN school suspension (which involved still getting to do some of your work so less 0s but being stuck in the same room all day where you weren't allowed to talk besides asking a question on the assignment... which I would imagine was pointless because different teachers covered the room at different points during the day so what are the chances that the teacher you have at the moment would actually be useful for the subject in front of you at the moment?)
• Out of school suspension - where you would also lose credit and not be able to make up for anything you missed. Now many of the kids that got this "didn't care" but since the school could kick you out of the school for failing any class below a certain grade a student that was really a problem could be kicked out of the school due to missing enough class time by doing this.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

No, that wasn't a thing when I was in school in the 80's and early 90's.

 

[wilkeliza]

I was in school in the early 90s. I believe paddling was still legal in Texas but your parents had to give permission. My mom worked in the elementary school and then intermediate school I went to (wasn't following us was just where she was assigned when the new position opened) and well I was never paddled by the principal but the one time I did get in trouble the principle held me until my mom could come. She was a teachers aid so much easier to get her out of class than a teacher. I got my butt whopping right there in the principals office by my mom. Never acted up at school again. Wasn't even over the butt whopping it was more the embarrassment of my mom punishing me in front of others.

 

[RedAngie]

I went to a Catholic elementary school. Yes, occasionally there was paddling. It was done in the principal's office; supposedly it was too gory to be witnessed by the other students, even as a deterrent. The parents supported it, and the kid paddled probably got it even worse when he/she got home. You could see the paddle hanging in the anteroom of the principal's office, and when I was in K and maybe 1st grade I thought this wooden paddle is what was meant by "The Board of Education."

Much more common was getting rapped on the knuckles with a ruler by the nun, or having to stand on your tippy-toes with your nose against the blackboard, or similar punishments that gave pleasure to the sadistic nuns. Occasionally a slap across the face.

In one class, it was common for the nun, while writing on the blackboard, to suddenly turn around and throw the eraser at some kid she suspected of talking or not paying attention. Her aim was so bad, however, that she ended up pinging the goody-two-shoes girl in the second row.

To answer the original question, no, I never got paddled. Once or twice I got one of those minor punishments. I was a good girl. It's been said that Catholic school kids turn out the worst after years of having to suppress their natural rowdy instincts. Once free of that stifling environment, watch out!! True in my case, and it's probably the reason I'm still such a B today.