I was spanked in the Christian schools that I attended growing up. In grades K-6, the teachers administered spankings in their classrooms. Usually, K-6 spankings were administered semi-privately, in the locker/coat area that was inside each classroom, but separated from the main area by a 4-foot high half-wall. Each teacher kept a spanking chair in this area of their classroom, with a small paddle and a short strap hanging on the wall. Although the other students could not see into this area from their desks, they could hear the entire disciplinary ritual unfold…
1> The teacher would sit on the chair… 2> “Bring me the paddle, Young Lady.”… 3> “Yes Ma'am." Student might start crying softly, maybe saying “I'm sorry, Ma'am.”, and/or begging, “Please don't spank me, Ma'am.”, etc… 4> “Lift your skirt, lower your panties, and put yourself over my lap, Young Lady!”… 5> “Yes Ma'am." (crying probably intensifies)… 6> SWAT, SWAT, SWAT, etc (definitely crying)… 7> “Okay. Pull up your panties, put the paddle back where it belongs, and return to your desk.”
Sometimes (usually in the later grades, 4-6), when a K-6 teacher felt that he/she needed make an example of a student (almost always a boy, but occasionally a girl), he/she would NOT go to the coat/locker area, but would remain at his/her desk and jump directly to step #2. I remember such an occasion, in 4th grade, when I had done something particularly naughty, and was told to fetch the strap. I had to walk to the coat/locker area to retrieve the strap, then walk to the front of the classroom, then drop my pants and underpants, and then bend over the teacher's desk (with my bare bottom facing my classmates). Receiving and witnessing such discipline definitely had a deterrent impact. In fact, for me, watching my next door neighbor (Michelle) have her ass tanned in front of the class by Mr. Lathrop in 6th grade was an especially effective deterrent for some reason (even more-so than when it had happened to me in 4th grade) – I was in the front row of desks and had a front row seat (her butt was less than 5 feet in front of me) for watching the leather strap tan her pale white butt cheeks until they were a red-hot shade of scarlet.
In both the Junior (the 7th & 8th grades) and Senior (grades 9-12) high schools, the PE coaches administered all corporal punishments in the boys' and girls' locker rooms. Any school staff member could issue a student a pink “punishment slip”. The slip included a place for the student's behavior to be ranked (1-5), and described. The rankings worked as follows…
1> In-class push-ups/sit-ups/pull-ups/running-laps (Physical Training – PT) during PE class (instead of whatever fun activity/game/sport was scheduled), for one or more days
2> In-class PT during class with a paddling after class, for one or more days
3> After-school “study-hall type" detention, for one or more days
4> After-school “PT type” detention for one or more days
5> After-school “PT type” detention, with a paddling, for one or more days
6> Customized in-class AND after-school discipline, for one or more days… a combination of “study-hall type" and/or “PE type” detentions… with at least one paddling, but sometimes more than one paddling (this level of discipline required meetings attended by the student, the primary teacher/staff-member who assigned the discipline, the coach who implemented the discipline, and a parent)… I remember only one occasion when a boy received the absolute maximum penalty (short of expulsion), a “One-Week Level-Six” with two paddlings each day (one after in-class PT and another after detention PT).
The student had to bring this slip to his/her PE coach during his/her PE class, or to the coach in charge of after-school detention in the gymnasium. The coaches would paddle students (with other boys or girls watching) while they were still naked and still wet after showering (before handing them a towel). Then, the coach would sign the slip, and the student would be required to take the slip home for a parent's signature. Of course, spankings at school always meant that your already red/sore butt was going to receive additional tanning at home!
My children were raised in a similar fashion, attending the same private Christian schools that I attended decades earlier. But now-a-days, in most parts of the U.S. (especially in public schools), I would NOT give my kids' schools the authority to spank them. Very few parents, let alone school teachers/administrators, know how to administer a proper spanking anymore. And, while a PROPER spanking can be one of the most loving and effective ways to train a child, improperly administered spankings are counter-productive, and even abusive, if they are administered without self-control (angrily/hatefully/too-agressively and/or with sexual motivations).