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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2010, 06:53:58 PM »
Lets see, my memory of paddling:

In the first through fourth grades they used one of those little wooden paddles like comes with the rubber ball attached by a rubber band. What do you call those toys? Paddle-balls, I guess. I don't remember anyone getting swatted by one, though I'm sure a few did.

Fifth and sixth grade it was a regular one-handed paddle, about four or five inches wide and I'd guess about two-and-a-half feet long. The teacher would take the student outside the room, get a teacher from an adjoining room as a witness, and you'd hear a *Thwack!*, or two, or three, never more than three, and the kid would come back in redfaced and maybe squirt a tear or two. We felt sorry for them but we still like our teachers by and large and we certainly didn't "live in fear of violence." Maybe that's because we were generally well-behaved, which was because that's what our parents demanded of us. As far as I know, no one who was paddled grew up to be a serial killer or anything.

Junior high was a blur. I don't recall what punishment was issued there.

In high school I don't remember anyone being paddled, though it's possible. Most of the punishment there was "detention," where you spent a few days sitting around the lunchroom with a handful of other miscreants and scraped dried Juicy Fruit from the underside of the tables with a butter knife.

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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2010, 07:16:13 PM »
I got in trouble a few times but I never got beat with a paddle. However those that did ran the risk of invoking the wrath of the Principle and that was one beating you didn't want. In jr High I saw him grab a kid by his shirt and was this close to actually beating the kid in study hall because he acted up all the time no matter what class he was in . That same kid died about 4 years ago after the cops tried to bust him for having a stolen cops gun and as he stood up after the cops busted in and yelling for everyone to stay still he gets up and starts walking. The first cop through the door shot him twice in the chest . After the 9th grade he was held back and he later graduated about two years behind the rest of us.
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #28 on: April 20, 2010, 03:37:31 PM »


I call bullshit........Average 9th grade boy (I am guessing) weighs about 125 to 150.

Teacher hit his butt hard enough( one strike) to lift him over a desk and onto the floor in another aisle

Kid would be DEAD if hit that hard and teacher would need a doctor also

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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2010, 08:24:05 PM »
Bullshit. DUmmy can't keep his story straight.

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 I sat behind him, and I used to kick his desk and warn him that the teacher would paddle him.





To my unending regret, I had a front row seat.

I would love to hear him explain this.
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2010, 10:24:35 PM »
I don't remember getting paddled in school only got in trouble one time and it was enough to scare me straight the rest of my time in school
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2010, 10:31:30 PM »
I don't remember getting paddled in school only got in trouble one time and it was enough to scare me straight the rest of my time in school

I got in trouble in kindergarten.....another little girl and I each wanted to play with the same doll. She had the head, I had the body and we pulled the doll apart.

Our punishment? We each had to go to the principal's office with a parent (my mother was with me) and we had to give the classroom, our most favorite doll....and we were not ever allowed to play with the doll we gave up.

I loved to play dolls, and having to give up my favorite...was enough to make sure that I never got in trouble in school again.

That ....and knowing once I hit high school, that if I did get in trouble....what would happen to me at home was way worse than whatever could happen to me in school.

I made "Goody Two Shoes" look like a bad kid.... ::)
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2010, 10:34:42 PM »
I got in trouble in kindergarten.....another little girl and I each wanted to play with the same doll. She had the head, I had the body and we pulled the doll apart.

Our punishment? We each had to go to the principal's office with a parent (my mother was with me) and we had to give the classroom, our most favorite doll....and we were not ever allowed to play with the doll we gave up.

I loved to play dolls, and having to give up my favorite...was enough to make sure that I never got in trouble in school again.

That ....and knowing once I hit high school, that if I did get in trouble....what would happen to me at home was way worse than whatever could happen to me in school.

I made "Goody Two Shoes" look like a bad kid.... ::)

That's so girly girl.  :hammer: :-)
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2010, 10:37:08 PM »
Can we blow the dolls up with explosives?

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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2010, 10:40:05 PM »
That's so girly girl.  :hammer: :-)


Yep...I was an only child until I was 15. I was such a girl....had the totally pink room, played with dolls, didn't even have a bike until halfway through 3rd grade!

Now? I hate ruffles, barely tolerate pink, and I still hate to get dirty....working outside in the yard/garden is a necessity in order to have flowers, but I if I could wiggle my nose and go "poofff!" and it be done, I would do so.  :uhsure:

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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #35 on: April 20, 2010, 10:48:37 PM »
But it is sure fun being girly
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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2010, 11:00:38 PM »


Bein' a limpwristed liberal - That's a paddlin'.
Posting on DU - That's a paddlin'.
Touchin' yourself while looking at gay porn - That's a paddlin'.
Sending people pictures of your hands - That's a paddlin'.

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Re: Paddling in school: What I witnessed when I was a student.
« Reply #37 on: April 21, 2010, 06:31:49 AM »
But it is sure fun being girly

I must be on the right site. I'm a male and I like girls too.
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