Former educators who've given spankings

Just as we have a number of medical professionals as members, both active and retired, there are certain to be teachers/educators here as members.

So I was wondering, especially about the older members in this category, if any have themselves carried out spankings/paddlings of students in their capacity as teacher/principle/coach …

I don't seem to have read anything about this yet. Many members have written about their punishments as a student. So let's hear from the other side of the paddle. Anyone who has doled out physical punishments as a teacher?

If so, what feelings or thoughts crossed your mind when doing so?

@agracier "Great minds think alike." Actually, it's not the same thought but very similar. I would like to hear the thoughts of teachers, school secretaries, or any school personnel who were called upon to witness a spanking. The teacher, coach, or principal administering the paddling is either mad, disappointed, or doing his/her dut but what about being called upon to witness a paddling? Would you be sympathetic to the student or not? Or would you think it was funny? Would you think the administrator was doing it too hard or not hard enough? I can imagine myself thinking a whole plethora of thoughts and experiencing numerous emotions witnessing a school paddling.

The only corporal punishment that was allowed in the schools I attended was the strap across the hands.

I, not my brother or sister ever experienced it though.

The silence on this topic is deafening! I suspect people in or who were in education are reluctant to post. In my school experience there was certainly a sexual element in the paddling scenes I witnessed or heard in the hall. One teacher would paddle guys in front of girls in detention.

I believe your point is valid about the silence and persuasion will do nothing, i'm sure @sternluver

The silence on this topic is deafening! I suspect people in or who were in education are reluctant to post. In my school experience there was certainly a sexual element in the paddling scenes I witnessed or heard in the hall. One teacher would paddle guys in front of girls in detention.

Yes, the silence is so deafening I can hear the blood rushing through my veins ...

And I wasn't even specifically asking about sexual elements in the punishments perse. I asked if any members had ever doled out physical punishments to students when they were teachers or in a similar position. Given there are some 4 million teachers in the US alone, and since Zity is quite international, certainly there has to be a strong statistical possibility some of our members gave physical punishments to students at one time or another.

We have all kinds of members from so many backgrounds.

The silence on this topic is deafening! I suspect people in or who were in education are reluctant to post.

With the strong opinions given that "spankings, and those who did them, are bad" on other topics why post about past experiences and run the risk of getting ones self reamed for it?

In my school experience there was certainly a sexual element in the paddling scenes I witnessed or heard in the hall. One teacher would paddle guys in front of girls in detention.

Could that be because the girls were there and there was no where else to take the offender to do the paddling?

I taught 37 years(30 in 6th grade) but by the time I started my career physical punishment was no longer acceptable. Not that I had a desire to administer corporal punishment.

I will admit there were a few occasions with particular students that it crossed my mind. Not that I would do it, but couldn’t help wonder if it might correct the problem. One female student comes to mind. She became progressively bratty to me to the point of being obnoxious. I couldn’t help but think a visit to my closet with an 18 inch wooden ruler applied to her bare bottom might just change her attitude. Of course it never happened. A parent conference had to suffice. It helped.

I know several teachers pretty closely. While I have no doubt that there are some teachers out there who would enjoy it (and probably shouldn't be teachers), my feeling is that the ones I know wouldn't be interested. After a difficult day a couple have commented about how it might help if the parents would spank a few students, but there is zero support for reintroducing school spanking. Note that this is in a non-spanking state, not sure how that might change in a place where it is used.

I am a retired educator who worked in the field for 40 years. During that time I primarily served as an elementary school teacher at the beginning of my career and during that time served often as a witness at paddlings given by the principal. Later, I became an assistant principal in a Middle School comprised of grades 6 through 8. One of the tasks delineated in my job description included discipline and the management and administration of the School Board's corporal punishment policy. I basically dealt with discipline including determining which students had earned a paddling, how many swat for the offence (between 1 and 5), and paddling the male students in the presence of a male witness. (Although I determine if a female student should be paddle and how many swats, the actual paddling for females was done by the female P.E. Teacher in the presence of a female witness.

sternluver wrote: "In my school experience there was certainly a sexual element in the paddling scenes I witnessed or heard in the hall. One teacher would paddle guys in front of girls in detention."

In my experience as an educator, all paddling were conducted in private outside both the presence and earshot of any other student. There was no sexual element involved. Paddling was punishment for misbehavior. I find your interpretation of your school experperience interesting as well as the behavior of that one teacher totally inappropriate. I would also suggest that another interpretation of that behavior might have have more to do with male dominance and its demonstration in front of the female student than any type of blatant sexuality.

@OldGuy48

What kind of emotions did you feel as a witness? Where you sympathetic to the student being paddled? Did you think too hard or not hard enough? After all they misbehaving student did act up in your class so you have no reason to be mad at the student.

I had a good female friend that lived in the same building as my wife and I. We hung out together now and then. She was a teacher. One day we were at a party at her house and it was all teachers. There was a really good looking black female and she blurted out the comment that men needed to be whipped now and then. I was not paying attention to the conversation so i don't know the context of her remark. But, at that point I surely wanted to get to know her much better. It never happened and I never saw her again.