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My younger sister used to catch it with a wooden paddle fairly often. She was awful, disruptive, foul mouthed little twit who got away with a lot more than she ever got caught in school.

Well, I started grade school in about 1959. Lower grades didn't have too much corporal punishment but when I got into 4 grade on up, it got interesting.

Now keep in mind, I was always innocent and never deserved getting what I got. I have been paddled fresh from gym showers, ( you should see the water turn into mist off a wet butt when the paddle hit)

Been punched in the chest, had knuckles rapped on top of my head, ruler across the hands and some of these things more than once. One teacher had a sawed-off boat oar. It had 444 holes in it to reduce wind resistance. He used it judiciously and did it with a certain panache and flair so it really wasn't that bad. The guys was small man and he was bald. Used to call him " Chrome Dome"

I would never allow teachers to do this to my children but it was pretty normal when I went to school. They stopped before high school since the boys generally fought back. Sometimes they did in 7th grade.

I don't think it scarred me for life, but I would kill someone if they did that to my kids.

Really bad offenses got sent to the principal and sometimes for 'swats' or standing in the corner of the main lobby of the school where everyone could see you being punished. Most in -class punishments were with ridicule and humiliation like being made to wear the 'Suzie' ribbon or a baby cap or a 'dunce' cap or standing at the blackboard with your nose in a ring for a long time, or exile to the cloak room or writing sentences on the blackboard or paper. Think these have all been done away with now and think it is for the best. The ridicule and humiliation stayed with some long after the punishment was over.

I was at junior school in the 70's and got the ruler across the knuckles!, so it is true!. A really mean maths teacher - Mrs Dowerick (dalek to us), would make us stand on a chair and whack a ruler across the backs of our knees - for not understanding her poor maths lessons - grrrrrrrrrr!

I also was hit on the head with a very heavy book once.

We had a teacher, not too many children liked him. The instructor was said to have given out nudgies? Not sure how that word was spelled, but it was a fist that had a knuckle sticking out more prominently than the others. He would walk up behind some of the students and hit them in the back of the head for some reason. The last straw was when a bunch of students lined up all the way down a hallway(that was considered a long distance for kids to be lined up for a gripe) to complain about grades they had received. He was sent packing.

My Mom got her knuckles rapped with a ruler and was made to stand behind the piano for hours on end because she did not obey the teacher's instructions in kindergarten. But, the language in Mom's house was Finn, and she did not understand English. Mom hated that dreadful teacher all her life.. Somewhere around 1907.

I can remember that some teachers had wooden paddles, we'd get whacked on the behind. I clearly remember a wooden paddle sailing past my nose when my teacher (8th grade) was out of control angry at a boy in our class.

Rumor was that the grade school principal had a rubber hose with nails in it. No one wanted to be bad enough to find out if there was any validity to that rumor.

Also, I understood that if I got punished in school, I was going to get it again from my Mom when I got home.

The general punishments were pretty standard-- staying after school, standing in the hallway, writing sentences.

However, there were a couple of individuals with unique punishments. My elementary principal put the boxing gloves on boys who had fist fights. Their class would gather in a circle and the boys were made to box until the principal was satisfied that they had learned their lesson. This wouldn't work today because so many kids actually fight for fun and would get into a fist fight just to get the opportunity to put on the gloves.

The other person was my 8th grade math teacher in junior high school. She had a paddle rack. The paddles varied in size, but all had holes drilled in them to make them sting more. She only paddled boys. That was in 1963.

I am not sure where all of you resided during your school days....but thank goodness I didn't have to live there....I am sixty years old and went to regular public school the whole time...we were never punished by physical force....we also didn't act out as much as todays youth does...we had many more rules in place...I remember not being able to wear slacks or pants (being a female) and the boys could not wear blue jeans or overhauls....we wore gym suits for gym class (ugliest things on earth) and punishment for infraction of the rules was swift....not physical at least in school....but when you got home, look out. We even had a Senior walk in high school where you could smoke!!!! But only seniors (and most of us were eighteen by that time); it was a different world back then...I don't know if it was better or worse than now...I guess a little of both...and I grew up in NJ.

Probably not borrowing their parents stories. I got whacked with the ruler across my knuckles on more occasions than I care to think about. Then it was the norm - - - today it would be child abuse!!

Go figure.

CJ

Of course a wife or woman should not be beaten. Neither should Children but their is no better effect known that teaches children there is a punishment due for doing wrong than a spanking(not a beating).A spanking can be a sharp slap on the rear end or a couple of them but the point is not to hurt physically so much as to show your disappointment and showing a sample of how much more worse committing wrongful acts the punishment could be. I'm 69 and yes we were not saint's in our growing years but almost every one i knew growing up was spanked and usually grounded. The difference is we learned discipline and right from wrong with no gray areas or questioning.Example would be stealing to feed your self.We were taught at least in America their was no justifiable excuse with all the Churches willing to feed the Hungry and people willing to give you some work to do say rake the yard for some food and often a couple of dollars. Then later on in the 60's it became the rage over DR,Spock's book on raising Children and parents stopped there traditional teaching of raising Children and stopped believing in the biblical saying of spare the rod and spoil the Child.And all i can add is look what happened to so many of the Children raised in that environment of Spock's ideas and practice.Discipline and religious values was lost such as going to Church as a family and drugs and liberal college teachings replaced the role of the parent with the Government more than willing to step in and add the controls the family quit. As a older person i am amazed now today at how much of our personal freedoms are being constantly lost due to political correctness a idea brought on by left wing socialist so that Americans are now afraid to speak there minds and say how they truly feel with out being labeled any number of names.As a young man if you drove a pickup down the street with a shotgun or rifle in your back window no one thought bad of it. That is just b one of our many freedoms we've lost to the PC police.How about smoking* we all knew it was unhealthy and we all knew of places where it was not be smoked around and many a home or business asked you not to smoke in their home or cars or business and i'd safely say 99% of all smokers honored that. Well the PC crowd got people all worked up against smokers and now they tax the heck out of tobacco and now they've started after soft drinks and fast foods and yet most of you agree with it and like the story that came out of Nazi Germany and then they came for me and no one was left to fight for me.

Oh Yeah! Back then rulers were solid thick wood-if you misbehaved you'd put your palm out and the teacher would hit you with the ruler. No backtalk. Wasn't considered child abuse. It was known as discipline. Hit a child today and it's "corporal punishment." Kids now have more rights than teachers (or adults for that matter).