If given a choice of detention or paddling...

...which one would you choose?

Suppose you got caught as an 8th grader in school and the Assistant principal gave you a choice of 5 hours detention or 5 pops with the paddle, which do you think you would have chosen? Why?

Myself, I would have chosen the paddling anytime. I hated detention.

I’d choose the paddling,

We didn’t have paddling in middle or high school. If we did, given the choice between paddling or detention, I would have chosen paddling. We often got in more trouble during detention which ended up with more detention time! Just get it over with!

We never had the paddle in school. Just the cane.

We were never given the option of that or detention, but if we had been given the option I would have chosen the cane. We always got 6 strokes bare and it was pretty harsh. But I could never have done 5 hours of detention, for two reasons. We lived 1 and a half hours from the school. Would have been to late getting home. The second reason is I would go nuts that long in detention.

Paddling

I would’ve gotten into more trouble trying to quiet during detention.

I always chose the paddling. I had too much going on socially to ruin my weekend in detention!

Absolutely the corporal punishment over the detention.

However, this being a fetish site, I do think there may be a more than a slight bias in many of the responses!

I choose a paddlng every time. Never liked detention, I knew ifBoth of I got paddled at school I would get another one just before bed . Both of them hurt a lot and from time to time left brusies.which became embarrassing when changing for gym,

If you chose detention you had to explain why you were late coming home and that often meant a paddling anyway

I had a crafty way of avoiding telling my parents I had a detention. I usually had a detention to resit a test that I'd failed. On the day of the detention I used to tell my parents that I'd be later home than usual because I was going to the shops after school to buy a record. Since Woolworths was only 5 minutes walk from my old school, as soon as I'd finished resitting the test I would walk to Woolies, buy a record and then go straight home and show the record to my parents to prove I was telling the truth (even though it wasn't the whole truth).

I would have taken the five pops on that ass. go ahead boss. tear that ass up. I can handle it....

LordJim2 wrote: "But I could never have done 5 hours of detention, for two reasons. We lived 1 and a half hours from the school. Would have been to late getting home. The second reason is I would go nuts that long in detention."

A penalty of 5 hours detention would not have been done in one sitting, unless it was a Saturday detention which many district never had. Typically a detention session would be an hour, 2 at the most. so a 5 hour penalty would have been spread over days.

Srg rik wrote: "If you chose detention you had to explain why you were late coming home and that often meant a paddling anyway."

In the district where I worked, after a paddling occurred parents were notified in writing of the paddling. This notification included the infraction, the number of smacks to the buttocks, who did the paddling and who witnessed the paddling. So if your child was paddled at school, parents knew about it. This, however, in some households, did not preclude that student getting another spanking at home. I never thought that was particularly fair but it was out of my jurisdiction.

Andrew Finklehouse, did you ever get caught by your parents at your deceit and half truth?

What a memorable spanking you would have gotten in my house had you been caught!

1. In trouble at school

2. Lying to mom and dad both about the behavior at school and getting detention for it.

3. Deceitfully creating an alibi to purposefully deceive your parents.

My, my, some little boy should have gotten his naughty, bare bottom thoroughly spanked! 😃

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I never thought that was particularly fair but it was out of my jurisdiction.

@OldGuy48

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I was a recipient of the paddle at school, AND AS A RESULT also suffered corresponding appointments with my father's leather strap in his workshop at home.

I never had a hard time understanding that this was obviously fair.

At school, I broke a rule (for example, I ditched a class), so I was punished at school for breaking a school rule. At home, my parents had a family rule (never get in trouble at school), so I was punished at home for breaking a family rule.

Let's face it... school corporal punishment, while unpleasant because it was embarrassing and perhaps a little bit painful, could usually be described as moderate discpline at best. Growing up, every one of my friends knew that the real price for rebellious behavior would be paid at home with a well-tanned BARE bottom!

I would choose a paddling,I started to get aroused by a spanking much younger than 8th grade,me and my bff would often get spanked on purpose at home and often get paddled on purpose at school,I think I may have been the only girl that got paddled in every grade at our school.

@OldGuy48 At the Junior High I attended in the 1950s, the only way one's parents learned of a paddling was if you told them. One girl told and it led to a funny conversation between her father and the teacher. As I remember the father asked the teacher if he had paddled his daughter When the teacher responded that he had done so, the father told him: "Thank you. She's needed a paddling fo years but my wife wouldn't let me."

As an 8th grader I would have chosen the detention because at that age I was still “afraid” of spanking and my curiosity had yet to bud…I didn’t understand at that time that spanking was the best disciplinary option for somebody of my personality type and by the time I came to terms with these facts I was well into high school and “too old for spanking” according to my parents on the occasions I tried to steer my discipline away from privileges being revoked back towards corporal punishment.

Ironically in 7th grade, my performance at school was substandard and my parents were considering pulling me out of public school and enrolling me in a private Christian academy that despite being in California had a corporal punishment option. I was given the Info packet by my parents to read and had noticed this. Wanting to be tough, and thinking spankings were for misbehaved little kids, I told my parents if an administrator there tried to paddle me I would throw the paddle at their head. My father disregarded the bratty reply and responded that if I got in enough trouble at the academy to get paddled that I would be facing the same at home with a multiplied magnitude.

Unfortunately, I was never pulled out of public school and sent to the academy. At the time I was very relieved mainly because the boys junior high uniform I would have had to wear would have brought me great embarrassment. When I was in 7th grade my big obsession was wearing shorts that fell below my knee and wearing boxer shorts (got teased hard in first day of pe for tighty whities). If I had gone to the academy I would have had to wear shorts which were literally not long enough to wear anything except briefs under. I’m guessing this was done intentionally by the academy administration at the time to force underwear regulation (everybody sagged boxers) without having to explicitly print “boys must wear briefs” in their literature.

I chose detention. I was in the 10th grade of high school, this was in 1971, paddling was really an exciting thought but the Dean of boy who used to be the head football coach was known for his very hard swats and I had previously received 1 swat from him, he’s was offering 3 swats, the one swat I received from him was the hardest swat I have ever received in my life and I couldn’t imagine taking 3.

But now a days I would definitely take 3 swat and not over my pants I would happily drop my pants and underwear and grab my ankles or my knees, not sure I can grab my ankles at my age. 😂

BottomFromTheTop wrote: "I never had a hard time understanding that this was obviously fair."

I guess we shall just disagree on this one. My view is that the misbehavior happened in school and was punished in school and that should be the end of it. I see an additional punishment at home for what is essentially the same behavior, no matter how you frame it, is double penalty. When there is no possibility of avoiding a second whacking at home for a misbehavior at school, then the misbehavior automatically earns two punishments. In situations such as that when I knew that the student would get a spanking at home in addition to the paddling in school, I would usually opt to give the student a 1 hour detention instead, knowing that it would mitigate the total punishment and he would still get a spanking at home for the misbehavior. I never had any problem with a student getting his tail heated for a misbehavior but I really didn't like him getting a double dose.

Srg rik wrote: "...the only way one's parents learned of a paddling was if you told them. "

That really surprises me. I know of some school districts where a parent needs to opt out of paddling for their student at the beginning of every school year and paddling can just occur as needed but notification is always made afterwards, usually in writing.

In some districts parents had to be called prior to any paddling and they could object.

In some districts parents could opt their student out of paddling at any time.

Usually a suspension resulted for students who were opted out of a paddling.

Early on when I was a lad in the 1950's, rules were a lot less strict about who paddled, where, when, how many, etc. By the time I became a teacher in the 1970's, some rules were put in place in many districts. By the time I retired, there was a very comprehensive procedure which always reguired notification of parents about a student's paddling.

When I, my siblings, my cousins and my friends and acquaintances were at school, if it was decided that you deserved a paddling, then you got one; simple as that! Besides, even if you had been given the choice between a paddling or a detention - which we were not - the school automatically notified your parents, which meant a spanking at home anyway; so basically, one way or another your butt cheeks were going to get fried!!

I'd take the 5 swats with a paddle because it's over with quickly. Better than 5 hours of detention, it would be like prison. I was given the choice of grounding or spanking. I always took the spanking because it was over quick.

Paddle every time. Didn’t happen often and it hurt like hell. It was kinda a badge of honor in the eighth grade to choose the paddle. No guy I ever knew went with detention.

A retired Educator told me about when she was a student teacher at a Dallas area high school in the late 80s. She said any student wanting to get out of an afternoon detention, could show up at the Assistant Principal's Office at a certain time in the morning before classes started and take 2 paddle licks to get out of an after school detention. If they had been given more than one day of detention, they had to show up each morning for another 2 licks. It was called, "Burning off a detention".

According to her, most of the students who chose to "burn off a detention", were those who had after school jobs or school related activities, such as sports or cheerleading.

@HaroldG It makes sense as it is over quickly. Detention can be like a prison sentence. I always chose spanking to grounding

I would choose the paddle

5 hours is insane, 1 is already multiple eternities, I'd have no choice but to take the paddle 100%. Imagine sitting doing nothing in a little seat for 5 hours no moving or speaking? hell no.

I can't speak for the way the paddle was applied in other schools. In my school district, the paddle was returned as a tool for disciple after many years of being banned. Certain teachers and administrators embraced this with enthusiasm. In my middle school it was applied frequently, brutally and with a very low threshold of tolerance. I was paddled for forgetting my gym clothes one day. The paddle was 2 inches thick, 4 inches wide and with a long handle. It left bruises that lasted over a week. I did also take swats to avoid a detention and it was not the best decision either.

Schools that set up the option to sit in detention for 5 hours vs swats were setting up the conditions to encourage the students to take the paddle. I am a serious spanko, but my experience with the "discipline" applied in that school was that it was teaching all of the wrong lessons.

The practice became nearly non existent after a year or two when the results were not particularly effective and there were complaints from parents about bruising and damage. If I ever met my old PE teacher I would probably beat the ever living shit out of him. He was a bully and a sadist. The paddlings were far out of proportion to the offenses.

It did not teach right from wrong. It was more about teaching how to avoid consequences.

This is a very private subject, as I was disciplined by my 8th grade teacher back when paddling was allowed in public schools. I was kept after class because I supposedly was talking when I shouldn't have been. That said, after class I was not given a choice, rather was paddled to tears. This occurred many times, as he singled me out as someone he could control and dominate. I was too afraid to say a word. It was a much different environment in those times.