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2013holyfamilypenguin1,385
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
A_L Will you put up for viewing Mother’s Little Helper? 250,000 viewers. WowI Wow! Wow! I was concerned about the paucity of posters. I am glad I returned by my intended today’s return. However, the concern was unwarranted. Keep posting.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
A_L Will you put up for viewing Mother’s Little Helper? 250,000 viewers. WowI Wow! Wow! I was concerned about the paucity of posters. I am glad I returned by my intended today’s return. However, the concern was unwarranted. Keep posting.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
The barrel staves are not apparent in the spanking machine illustrations provided from the other links.
Bottom left hand corner.
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Another_Lurker10K289
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
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KKxyz3,59957
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
The following mainly recent books contain references to the paddle as “The Board of Education”. (Not to be confused with “bored with education”.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=8vKC9DsiPdwC&pg=PA1
https://books.google.com/books?id=E87SK53KGMMC&pg=PA25
https://books.google.com/books?id=EBjZJXO6uTMC&pg=PA96
https://books.google.com/books?id=exq5FQP1Pl4C&pg=PA36
https://books.google.com/books?id=FePL9RVgl_sC&pg=PA33
https://books.google.com/books?id=FPGAORFfzC4C&pg=PA33
https://books.google.com/books?id=o2txAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16
https://books.google.com/books?id=pzhwa8JkIcoC&pg=PT35
https://books.google.com/books?id=RHzJpWeqmrkC&pg=PT35
https://books.google.com/books?id=uTjsP-X-n94C&pg=PA80
https://books.google.com/books?id=uWiWBXfDVk0C&pg=PT49
https://books.google.com/books?id=WJD9GXz5GIoC&pg=PA38
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2013holyfamilypenguin1,385
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
KK. About what time was the the “Board of Education” used for the paddle? You will find a plethora of mentions in books because of the popularity of self publication and more so in our digital age with paperless books.
When did the word spank start to be used as a euphemism for much more harsh punishments?I have searched Google News archives for prison + spanking and found no hits for prison spankings before the notorious Elmira reformatory scandal erupted in 1884. Thereafter, the combination is much more common. It seems likely that warden Brookway used the term to make the severe corporal punishment sound more palatable to himself and others, and to indicate it was applied to the buttocks.
Many of the hits involve OCR errors (e.g. speaking = spanking) or spanking in the sense of “new” or “travelling fast”, or the two words appear on the same page in separate unrelated articles.
USAGE OF THE WORDS SPANKING AND CANING.
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KKxyz3,59957
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
I have not found any detailed contemporary discussions on the Internet concerning the adoption of paddles by schools in the USA.
In my own jurisdiction, SCP became regulated in the decades following the introduction of compulsory education. I would guess the same happened in the USA.
I have speculated that parents rather than professional educators held sway in the USA. The professionals inherited their CP practices from the schools of ancient Rome. US parents required SCP to be based on what they did at home, especially in rural areas.
The records of local school boards may have been less diligently preserved and are less likely to have been digitised and placed on the Internet.
In the absence of school board records the attitude of the wider community towards wayward children may provide insight. The following is of interest in this regard.
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http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ … d-1/seq-2/
THE BISBEE DAILY REVIEW [Arizona], THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1917Judge Lockwood Inaugurates Spanking in Juvenile Court as Punishment for Youngsters Spanking was officially adopted yesterday afternoon as a means of punishing offenders who appear before the juvenile court and are found guilty of petty crimes. Judge Lockwood, of the superior and juvenile courts who came to Bisbee yesterday and conducted the trial of about ten little Mexicans in justice court, adopted the new method of punishment here which has proved so successful during the last few months in Douglas.
When court was called to order the young sons of the southern republic, a grinning, chattering crowd, sat in front of Judge Lockwood and appeared to be hugely enjoying the affair. As each was called up and closely questioned regarding his part in recent thefts of candy and canned fruit from a warehouse on Broadway Avenue, however, his attitude changed to one of apprehension. And when the judge requested Constable Bert Polley to go out and get several good straps and a few extra barrel staves, the young Mexicans squirmed around, tried to laugh and finally burst into tears.
Polley is Spanker
Mothers, sisters and aunts of the boys testified that they were willing that the boys be punished, and so Judge Lockwood awarded sentences in accordance with the number of cans of candy and fruit which each lad admitted having stolen and sold. One tousle-headed little fellow snickered and said he had taken fourteen cans. He was given twenty-four “spanks.” The others were “sentenced” to from ten to eighteen licks.
Constable Polley was ordered to administer the spankings and Night Sergeant J. A. Kempton acted as official “holder.” Although the “high constable” showed mercy in wielding the heavy leather strap, he nevertheless made his victims squall loudly and stagger around the room in a dazed manner when each had completed his “sentence.” Kempton was almost overpowered by several of the young offenders who struggled manfully to escape at the first licks. A large crowd assembled in front of the court room when the victims started to scream and enjoyed the spanking scene. After Polley had almost fainted from exhaustion, the last victim trudged painfully from the court room joined his comrades and vowed, in voluble Mexican, that he would never steal again.
Douglas Starts Spanking
Owing to the fact that several of the lads’ mothers are working to support themselves and families, Judge Lockwood gave them time in which to pay for the goods stolen by their sons. Each of the women, however, seemed to enjoy the spanking scene hugely.
Spanking was first adopted in juvenile court cases in Douglas several months ago when Mrs. G. H, Hirst, probation officer in that city, superintended a spanking fest in the rear of the city hall. Since then several other spankings have been staged and the number of petty robberies by small boys has decreased wonderfully. Judge Lockwood stated yesterday he intended to purchase a specially made leather spanker to be used in juvenile cases. He declared that he had found public spanking to be the best punishment for young offenders, in as much as it took the “kinks” out of many boys whose conduct might otherwise land them in the reform school.
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2013holyfamilypenguin1,385
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Judge Lockwood.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
College custom made paddles.
