Mr McTaggart demonstrated all this with a single stroke to the male student’s hand. The latter grimaced a bit as the belt hit him but otherwise didn’t say anything. A posed reconstruction of a child being spanked is shown over a phone interview in French with a psychologist who helped devise the spanking lessons for parents. United States: Four TV news reports (Nov 2014) about school paddling in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Texas. She brought it down with real velocity and I let out a ‘bloody hell!’ Mr McTaggart came over at once. “Far too hard,” he told Debbie. “Let gravity and the leather do most of the work. Here – switch around.”

The source and date of this small picture are unknown. From the clothing it looks as if it could be 1920s or 1930s. The fraternity is Alpha Sigma Delta, according to the Greek letters on the bungalow. The recipient is being held in a bent-over posture by two colleagues. In a different part of Peru, three teen boys are tried and whipped by a village court for stealing. The next year, I was allocated Year 3. Any teacher will tell you that there is a big difference between five and seven-year-olds when it comes to behaviour, and it was only a few weeks into the new term that I found myself calling a boy to the front and retrieving the tawse from my desk.

She told me that she was doing her observations of her teacher one day when she got to school late. She told me that she looked very young even though she was 25 years old. She said that even at the high school level, she had the smallest breasts in the school. The teacher she was observing was absent that day and had a substitute teacher. The substitute was a really old lady who didn’t know anything about her being a college student who was working on becoming a teacher, so she chided her for coming to class late. She tried to apologize and explain, but the sub told her to be quite and take her seat. She was confused, but did as told. In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. A jocular birthday paddling in a classroom, date and location unknown. The implement used might be the school's real paddle. A 22-minute film showing several genuine judicial canings in prison. Very graphic -- not suitable for squeamish viewers.

The same exhibit at the Eton museum, somewhat reorganised. Unfortunately the caption is not legible in either view. It is not certain that this is a domestic rather than a school paddle, but the jocular inscription "Attitude Adjuster" suggests that it was not really intended for serious educational punishment. United States: TV news report (May 2015) on contrasting paddling policies in two Texas school districts. An example of the most common, though by no means universal, punishment position in South Korean schools. A TV news report (Jan 2008) on a proposal to abolish school CP in Ohio, including an interview with a high-school principal who uses the paddle.

Judicial CP

Another neighbourhood secondary school. At this one, "class caning" is the normal punishment -- where the student is disciplined in his own classroom in front of his classmates. This scene (Jan 2007) is a little blurred, but it looks as if the Discipline Master is getting the boy to bend lower across the desk before inflicting the strokes. This is a secondary 3 class (normally the year in which students turn 15). For more real Singapore school canings, see these video clips.

A recently-left secondary school student revisits her old school and takes a picture of the courtyard. "This is where we used to stand and sing the national anthem, say the pledge, and watch bad boys get caned." Several Singapore schools hold their assemblies outdoors (indoors if wet) and conduct so-called public canings there. This came with a caption reading "Denver reform school scandal, straps used in flogging, 1941". I don't know what scandal is alluded to here -- can anyone throw any light on this? United States: TV news anchor Shepard Smith describes getting paddled at his private school in the late 1970s. Sadly, I currently do not have a Korean translator. But if you know anyone interested in helping, feel free to refer them to me. The headmistress began by giving the boys a sound telling-off, shouting at them forcefully – and this is when we found out what had happened. Neither boy made no reply, and no doubt it was felt that their silence was pretty much as good as a confession.A student is stretched across a bench for a strapping by the master in this old German print, which has been reproduced in numerous places. A further follow-up to the previous two items. TV news report from Memphis school board town-hall meeting in July 2007 over continuing controversy about the Blue Ribbon Plan, which abolished CP. Speakers at the meeting are seen calling for the return of the paddle, and the reporter waves a paddle around for the camera. I was amazed. I had been spanked by my parents and my aunt before, but those spankings were always done in private. I had never seen or imagined a grown-up giving a child an over-the-knee spanking in a public setting like that. Although there was no-one else using the playground at the time, I’m sure that people driving by on the road must have noticed. Five clips from Texas, four of them covering a controversy about male administrators spanking girls, the other from a district where paddling is alive and well and everybody is happy.

We do not have to engage in immersive role play for a session to work. Your meeting with me could involve anything from a serious, unforgiving punishment thrashing to a light-hearted, more relaxed spanking.A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly. Credit where credit's due, there is quite a lot of humor in Day 3. The RPG battle looks like it took a while and was a pretty neat idea.