2015holyfamilypenguin 4,32069 Aug 19, 2020#871 Cathy G may be of help with first hand knowledge albeit in her salad days of the panhandle in Florida.  Florida from north to south are more miles than one could imagine. I only have drove a portion and began to learn that first hand. The closer you are to […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Jul 27, 2020#861 The original adoption and the continued use of the paddle in some schools in the South of the USA remains inadequately explained although correlated with conservative beliefs and fundamentalist religion. Genes (DNA) and Dawkin’s memes (ideas, attitudes, and customs) are transmitted from generation to generation with great and varying fidelity, […]

  KKxyz 3,59957   Jan 22, 2020#851 There is nothing new in the world, just endless regurgitation, it seems. See message of Oct 29, 2015, #592 above. And also other threads. Quote Like Share   2015holyfamilypenguin 4,32069   Jan 29, 2020#852 KKxyz Certainly 1888 is not the earliest use of the paddle but the size […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Apr 04, 2019#811 The Paddle Known to High School Football Players in 1912 Ashland Tidings. (Ashland, Oregon.), 31 Oct. 1912. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn … d-1/seq-5/ ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL  [Established 1890] Personal Notes That Tell of Activities in the Realm of the Three R’s. [. . .] The high school football boys gave Coach Butterfield a […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Mar 28, 2019#801 Six of the best. Indeed, shingles and shakes have been used for “spanking” along with barrel staves and other common household wooden items in times past. There is an inordinate amount of material posted randomly in this thread making it hard to assimilate and digest. viewtopic.php?f=198833&t=2749&p=45024 Quote Like Share Mar […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Mar 23, 2019#791 Did high school football coaches popularize the paddle? High school coaches are important people in many USA high schools and especially in rural areas in the South where the paddle has been or remains popular. Coaches are often the main administrators of the paddle with the school’s athletes often the […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Jan 24, 2019#781 Popular publications tend to both reflect and to normalise the local culture and social expectations in their text, illustrations and advertisements. In 1920, electricity was still new fangled and switches common in school rooms. Publications in the North naturally reflected the North. Are there any publications form the South reflecting […]

Another_Lurker 10K289 Dec 25, 2018#771 Hello KK, A small thing anyway, and yes, I do know that discord reigns over the Wikipedia article, but frankly some of the people contributing to that discord are talking spherical objects, and politically motivated, politically correct spherical objects to boot! Amongst those with a genuine reason to be concerned […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Jul 28, 2018#761 KKxyz wrote: Philippines As noted previously, both the school and fraternity paddle are known in the Philippines. They very likely came from the USA. The American invasion of the Philippines in 1898 was opportunistic. The United States was at war with Spain in support of revolution in Spanish colonies. The […]

KKxyz 3,59957 Jul 17, 2018#751 Did American football help establish or continue the use of the paddle in US high schools? Many schools in the US South that still use the paddle have both football teams and rules that make it clear that the school’s athletes are expect to opt for the paddle in place […]