Spanking in school

I know down here where I live spanking is still allowed in school as long as the parents give the school permission to spank their child (it's allowed in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida). My question is was anyone spanked in school growing up? What was your experience?

I was never in any school where spanking was allowed. In the US I was in various public and parochial schools in New Jersey. That was a state where physical punishments were not allowed, though it was no secret that many nuns in the schools just couldn't resist giving in to their nasty urges. Later in Belgium there were no physical punishments allowed either at the Jesuit High School I went to. Never even once saw any of the teachers losing their cool either, unlike nuns.

But they would assign writing punishments at the drop of a hat.

Grown up, my wife and I had foster children. Even if it had been allowed (which it wasn't) never on my life would I have allowed physical punishment in school. Never. Had it still happened, I fear my wife would have stormed the school and dished out her form of retribution on anyone who had spanked our kids. It's even possible my own mother would have joined in.

Both absolutely despised people who lorded it it over kids by using physical force on them. They were very strict when it came to upbringing, but both knew that one can't train pets/animals by beating them and that the same applied to children.

My wife and i went a Catholic school here in Canada where they employed the strap. The strap was a black rubber strap about 12". The strap was given in the Principal's office and applied to the palm of your hands. The rule in both of our families was getting the strap at school meant a spanking on your bum at home. More than once did I end up with a sore hand and bum!! Our kids never suffered the strap as it was abolished here at that time. That didn't mean that trouble at school escaped them from going over our knee!!

It is legal here in Ontario can. But it could lead law suit.

I was born in the 80s but I started school in 1990. I never was spanked in school, it wasn't allowed. I grew up in Minnesota and it seems like most states that still allow it are Southern states (with the exception of Idaho). I know my parents would not have allowed the school to punish us in that way, even if Minnesota allowed it at that time. Kindergarten and first grade was in Indiana, which still allows it. I don't know if it ever happened there but then again, I was still pretty young. I don't think they allowed it where I went to first grade though because I remember getting in “trouble” a lot in first grade and you just lost your recess for that day. You had “detention” during recess time and depending on what you did, depended on whether you just had to sit there or whether or not you could read a book. The kid sitting behind me got in trouble for fighting and he just lost his recess…so I don't think at that school they allowed spanking or else he probably would've gotten that over a recess detention.

Heared rumors even saw a paddle..but never experienced it.

It is legal here in Ontario can. But it could lead law suit.

Wait, what? Are you sure about this, @Permdiaper? I'd be very, very surprised if this were true. Is it another case of a super old law/rule that everyone forgot about and that's just never enforced/applied (precisely for fear of lawsuits)?

In CA in the 80’s the paddle was little more than folk legend. However, it was threatened in class once when I was in 4th grade, and the results were pretty dramatic.. almost instantly the class got quiet and kids stopped throwing stuff. In 6th grade two kids got sent to the office and came back with red tear stained faces. They said they didn’t get spanked when we asked them but…. everyone kind of assumed they were lying.

If you look on corpun dot com you can peruse the individual state laws and statistics. In the mid 2010s the paddle made a come back in TX after being mostly abolished, mostly in small towns and rural districts. The interesting thing is that it was brought back mostly in high schools, and some junior high schools but most elementary schools don’t use it. There were also some interesting responses from the kids themselves when asked whether or not spanking should be brought back. It was far from the landslide you would expect.

Yes, it is true at least back in 2005. Teachers are allowed at that time to spank Students.

I was in elementary school in the 1970s and high school in the 1980s and spanking was still a thing. Most teachers kept a wooden paddle in their room though, in actual practice the spanking was actually done by a vice principal who had the title of “disciplinarian.” he was also the one who would hand out detentions, etc. A special summer school I went to a few years was a little more serious about it and used a leather strap.

I was born in Indiana in 1950 and paddling was a common form of punishment in schools at that time. It was widely used from the time I started school until the day I graduated. Here is a copy of a post I made on the subject about 6-years ago.

"In reference to school paddling by PE teachers, I always say (sarcastically) that I think there used to be a law that each school district was required to hire a latent homosexual sadistic gym teacher who's job was to paddle the students, and the wealthier school districts were able to hire a female version of the same. I made this statement to a group of my friends and one woman in the group, who attended Catholic school, stated, "You just described my high school gym teacher to a tee.' "

This post is specific to PE teachers but all teachers were allowed to paddle and sometimes the teacher did the paddling and sometimes we were sent to the principal's office and the principal did the paddling. Usually, when the teacher did the paddling, the child was taken out into the hall and ordered to bend over and we all listened with baited breath for the first crack of the paddle. After the first crack of the paddle we would anxiously await the next crack, wondering how many whacks they would receive. The standard number of whacks was about three, but four or six was not unheard of. For me, these were always highly sexually charged events that I have carried with me my entire life. Some teachers would paddle students right in the classroom and I remember one incident in sixth grade where a boy was called up to the front of the class and the male teacher took a light weight paddle and administered a flurry of rapid spanks to his bottom and the boy was finally released and ran to is desk and put his head down sobbing with pain and embarrassment. Corporal punishment is still allowed in Indiana but I think it has become exceedingly rare. What I see in the US is that the only states that still allow corporeal punishment are in states where the population has a surprising low level of intellect.

Now days when people ask me if I believe in corporeal punishment my standard reply is, “Yes, but only among mutually consenting adults." 😃

I went to Catholic elementary school in the 60s and 70s. The nuns could be brutal depending on who you had for a teacher. I was spanked a few times during those years, mostly when I was in the younger grades. Not so much from grade 6 through 8th, although we had a younger nun in grade 7 who would occasionally whack your ass with a metal ruler.while you stood in front of the class. She would also spank the boys over her knee in front of the class simply to humiliate them if they did something wrong. It wasn't to cause pain. I saw it done two or three times and one of the boys was a good friend of mine. I can't imagine how they felt at that age being spanked in front of the whole class with the girls they were trying to impress watching and giggling. My friend was devastated when it was over and just returned to his seat with a red face and tears in his eyes. I felt sorry for him. In the younger grades, they used ping pong paddles, rulers, leather slappers, and their hand to spank us. That did hurt, but at least they did it in private and not in front of everyone. Parents at that time didn't have to give permission in those schools. They couldn't lay a hand on you in public schools, so those kids made out ok.

During P.E. class in Louisville, Ky., in about 1966 the high school football coach who was our P.E. teacher told us to run 3 laps around the school track. At the far end of the track was a small stand of trees and three of us decided to hide and wait until the rest of the class returned for the last lap. Unlucky for us the coach called everyone in early, leaving the three of us stranded behind the trees. We soon noticed that the class did not return for the last lap and we walked back to where the coach was waiting for us. He marched us to the front of the class where everyone was sitting on benches watching. We were told to drop our shorts and jock strap, and bend over, thus exposing our bare butts to the entire class. He produce a long three-holed paddle and gave each of us three sharp strokes across our asses. That didn't particularly hurt and we believed that we deserved it. We were all used to seeing each other's butts, balls, penises, and the rest of our naked bodies during showers. No big deal at the time. Being snapped by a wet towel on your ass hurt worse. We knew better than to snap the towel on someone's genitals.

I got my first school paddling in the first week of first grade. I guess the teacher wanted to make an example of me because she put me over her knees in the front of the class and gave me a long paddling with a paddle ball paddle. More usually I went to the cloak room for my paddling and occasionally the principals office. Paddling was common and someone got paddled in my class at least once per week.

@bob1952 More usually I went to the cloak room for my paddling..

Something I missed out on 😳 - how embarrassing knowing everyone will be focused upon hearing what's taking place. Perhaps a separate thread “cloak room spankings” might be of interest.

I attended Texas Public School during the sixties and early seventies. Paddling was very common place especially in my junior high school. While boys were paddled more readily than girls (I would say something like seven or eight to one.) a few of my girlfriends were whacked a couple of times mostly in PE class. I was an A student and escaped Texas Public School without so much as a whack.

At my school here in England in the 60's and 70's formal corporal punishment was carried out in the headmaster's or headmistress's offices. The headmaster would cane the boys with a bamboo stick, and the headmistress would punish the girls with the ruler. And some of the male teachers had a PE type slipper in their desk, and if a boy persistently misbehaved he might be bent over and receive some hard wacks from that. And the headmistress would sometimes raise a girl's skirt and give her some sharp slaps on the back of her thighs. I was caned on just one occasion for direct disobedience, I had climbed onto the flat roof of the toilet block to get a ball back and some bright spark reported me to the duty teacher. He called for me to get down and I tried to evade him by climbing down through a broken pane in the skylight, but he caught me and sent me to the headmaster. You were always caned on the palm of the hand or fingers if you were unlucky and his aim wasn't so good. I got two hard stroke's on my palm and it hurt like hell! I had the red marks for two days until they faded. My class teacher gave me a filthy look when I returned to my desk, as an A student like myself wasn't suppose to misbehave like that. Corporal punishment was banned in England sometime in the late 70's I believe. They also had the cane in my junior school for 8-10 year old boys, but I never heard of anyone getting it…

It wasn't banned in state schools till 1986. Although rare, it was used and I received it early in my school days.

During my childhood, corporal punishment was officially prohibited in school. They were described as non-pedagogical and condemned. At the same time, the teachers used them and no one protested - neither their superiors, nor the parents of the students.

In younger grades, people were punished with hitting a ruler in the hand. This was done in the presence of other children. In the older grades it happened that a teacher punished a group of students by punching them once with a stick on their buttocks through their clothes. It was more embarrassing than painful for them.

It happened that a student was spanked without any witnesses. Students usually did not talk about it. In the younger grades, I got such a spanking on my bare buttocks. The reason was persistent breaking the ban on running in the corridors. The teacher took me to an empty classroom and closed the door. The spanking was less painful than at home, but very embarrassing. I didn't tell my parents about it. If they knew, they would probably intervene in the school.

I grew up in the 1950s and spanking was prevalent in many schools in the area. In my Jr High School it as the shop teacher. Each year he would make a new thick paddle, with holes. Anyone deemed in need of punishment, boys or girls, go one hefty swat with the paddle and then were required to “autograph it”. At the end of the school year the paddle was varnished and attached to the all of his classroom for all to see. I got by with only one session throughout my tenure there.

During my school days, here in Romania during our communist era, wasn't official any low or regulations to allow or not any kind of corporal punishment in schools, but a lot of teachers used to give “the ruler” to the palms for a lot of things much or less important and usually most of the parents wasn't against this practice since most of them was also “educated ” in the same way during their schooldays …

From the 5 grade to the 8 grade, one particular teacher from my school used to give “the ruler” on our clothed bottoms for bad grades on his class and as punishment for not doing homework, but also for any bad behavior.

We were called in front of the whole class and put bent over the teacher's table. Usually we were dressed in our school uniforms (pioneer style for those who know such things about the communist education), but he required us to remove our coat and remain only in uniform shirt&pants. Usually this teacher delivered up to 10 hard strokes with his wooden ruler, but enough to bring tears for any from us.

Personal I received a few times his ruler, I was never cry in front of him and in front of my class, but some tears was always present. Not as much for the stinging pain on my bottom but much more for the whole humiliation ritual. When all was over the stinging persisted for about one hour or so and for me was really hard to sit with that burning sensation on my bottom…

This teacher also loved to make phone calls or to send notes to that kind pf parents (including my mother) who were well know that apply spankings at home especially for bad grades. Personal I was more afraid by my mother's belt or switch than his ruler…

During my school days, here in Romania during our communist era, wasn't official any low or regulations to allow or not any kind of corporal punishment in schools, but a lot of teachers used to give “the ruler” to the palms for a lot of things much or less important and usually most of the parents wasn't against this practice since most of them was also “educated ” in the same way during their schooldays …

From the 5 grade to the 8 grade, one particular teacher from my school used to give “the ruler” on our clothed bottoms for bad grades on his class and as punishment for not doing homework, but also for any bad behavior. (…)

This teacher also loved to make phone calls or to send notes to that kind pf parents (including my mother) who were well know that apply spankings at home especially for bad grades. Personal I was more afraid by my mother's belt or switch than his ruler…

It was similar in my school days in Poland. Perhaps the only difference is that the ruler was beaten by the hand in the younger grades (1-4). After that, not anymore, but maybe it was due to the change of school. It was similar with the teachers' complaints directed at the parents. The teacher didn't have to beat. If he said that the student was learning poorly or misbehaving the student, there would be a spanking at home. Usually much more painful than at school.

I went to school in the UK between the 1970s and mid 1980s when corporal punishment was permitted and used at the school I attended. This included spanking, when younger, the slipper and plimsoll and occasionally the cane.

My mother would not give the school permission to spank or paddle me at school. BUT, she was very clear that when I got home that she would deal with me making me wish she had allowed the school to deal with me!! lol.

Corporal punishment has long been officially illegal in French public education facilities. However it's well known that in the 1950s teachers would e.g. hit children's fingertips with rulers and I heard of such things into the 1980s, when it was probably illegal. Some teaching staff ignores rules. There was a rumor some teachers in my school gave spankings.

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).

I was often spanked by the PE/games teacher with a plimsoll for persistently refusing to participate. I never had more than six smacks at a time and it was always over the seat of my trousers. I used to say to the other lads that it didn't hurt, not so much to try to appear tougher than I really was but simply because it was nothing compared with a couple of dozen smacks with my dad's leather slipper on my bare bottom which was what I used to get at home.

I got spanked with a paddle twice when I was in 1st grade. I honestly don't remember what I did I think she hated me since it seems like I was the only one to get spanked- Texas in early 80s.

In the 40's and 50's in UK, I was given the strap on the hands in Primary school (Up to age 11). In Grammar school (High school) I was given the gymshoe from the PE teacher, over the pants. The cane on the bare buttocks from the Headmaster. Always six strokes at a time, and hard. Always caused heavy bruising, and sometimes broke the skin. Never deterred me from playing hooky Etc. 😃.

Would have been grounds for an assault lawsuit these day.

@Andrew_Finklehouse What do you mean by persistently refusing to participate?