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?

January 15, 1893

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr … 5B8385F0D3

An odd kind of club.

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap … =107015450

An odd kind of club The Locust Grove Swimmers had a dinner once a year, and each man, whether member or guest, was obliged to eat a whole duck and one complete lemon pie. He who cleaned his plates most effectually was presented with a piece of silver plate. Suspended over the dining table was a great wooden paddle, which was taken down when the toasting began. The significance of this article became apparent when a member in responding to a toast told a story which had been heard before. Another member whistled “Anld Lang Syne” and finished the story, thus proving that he had heard it before, and the paddle was put into vigorous use upon the offender.

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?

One of the difficulties with researching news reports is the way details are changed to suit the supposed knowledge of the readers. A shingle may become a strap when a story crosses an ocean.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/72168270

Northern Star (Lismore, NSW) Saturday 4 July 1908, page 9.

1907s Grim Toll. The oddest accidents of the year

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Another woman, wife of a miner at a place called Cheboygan, in Michigan, lost her life in an even stranger fashion, her seven-your-old boy had played truant from school, and when he came home she, remembering the old proverb about sparing the rod, chastised him with a strap. At the very first blow there was a fearful explosion. The boy was killed instantly, and his mother received injuries from which she will not recover. Investigation proved that the little fellow had stolen a dynamite cap and slowed it in one of his trousers’ pockets. The blow from the strap had exploded it.

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Compare: Spanking can be fatal mentioned above.

It is common practice in US schools to require students to empty their pockets before they are paddled.

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 horn-book could serve a dual function right back to the colonial days..

http://edudemic.com/2011/04/classroom-technology/

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Search hard enough in Sumner and you might find one of those handheld horn-book wooden paddles from colonial times with printed lessons that served a dual purpose: teach a kid the alphabet with one side of the paddle, teach him or her some manners with the other.

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?

American Way,

I have speculated about the hornbook before. It seems I am not the first to do so. Unfortunately, the linked documents are not proof.

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?

They really did fall out of favor years before. It is hard to picture a Puritan teaching spanking a pupil with the Our Father. Were hazing paddles common in Europe before the latter part of the 19th century when fraternities started here?

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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?

American Way,

See: http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 320975049/ above for the answer to your question.

The European universities were established mainly to train priests for the Church. The paddle may have been used in France.

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?

They call it puppy love. KK when did the word shingle give way to the word paddle. It doesn’t go away completely but practically speaking when was it stopped being used frequently in references? It could coincide with the demise of the woodshed and rural living?

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