When I was in the second grade, it was fairly common for a child to be paddled for wrongdoing. Well, one time I lied to a teacher and she found out about it. She made me stand in the corner, then called me to the front of the class at the end of the day. […]

I was raised as an only child and my mother always tried to be more of a friend than a mother. By the age of 13, I had become unruly and quite disrespectful. I was still not brave enough to be this way towards my mother – my teachers, on the other hand, were not […]

The school my mother sent me to was one of the few to continue using corporal punishment right up to the complete ban by the UK government in the late 80s. Most of the other girls at school were boarders. I was not, however, because we lived quite nearby and although my mother had the […]

I was at a grammar school from 1967 to 1972. I was not good at French and found it very tedious. But in my second year, we had a female French student teacher – she was about 21 and very pretty. You can imagine the interest she created in an all-boys school. She would take […]

By the time I was in the 7th grade, I had been paddled only one time previously by a teacher (in 4th grade). That one stung and she administered it with a Fli-Back ping pong-type paddle. Our 7th grade teacher was Ms S, a woman in her late 20s or early 30s, with neatly trimmed […]

Many years ago, I worked in the front office of an elementary school. My duties were fairly simple: filing, answering the telephone, duplicating documents for the teachers and other basic clerical duties. However, I was also the witness for corporal punishment. Whenever a kid had misbehaved enough in class, the teacher would send him or […]

I grew up in the mid-west in the 1970s. Fortunately for me, my mom was not into spanking. I got the occasional swat on the bottom when I was real young but she gave that up when I was about five. Unfortunately for me, corporal punishment was still around in the schools and heavily used […]