punishment by paddle or cane will be given in private, though the fact they have been
so dealt with will not necessarily be secret.
A tennis bat, is that what we here call a ping pong paddle? Crocodile Dundee: You call that a knife? You call that a paddle?
I’ve never cared for religious rationale as opposed to order and respect motivated CP. The Nuns never did it under that pretext nor do Hebrew schools where the Book of Proverbs and the Hebrew Scriptures, whole spre the rod mentality comes from. I imagine some of that componet of fundamental protestantism is operative in the popularity of this form of domestic punishment and “christian” school thinking and may account for parental approval for it in Southern public school but it isn’t a part of the stated reasons in public school handbooks that are order and respect motivated.