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Oliver_Sydney92758
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?
Hi KK
Did you note this one from the latest corpun.com update? It seems relevant to this thread.
Public Ledger, Memphis, Tennessee, 4 January 1879, p.3
Virginia Flogging.
(Richmond State.)
Captain Lipscomb, chief of police, joined a group of gentlemen, including Judge Clopton, Colonel Ambers and the State reporter, standing on Hull street, and told of a white man that he whipped this morning by order of the mayor. The prisoner was a tramp hailing from Connecticut, and gave his name as Charles A. Wilson. He was convicted in court of stealing a pair of boots from John Dunavan, Danville shops, and was sentenced to receive five lashes. One gentleman in the party asked how he administered the lash. “With a paddle three inches broad,” was the reply. “That don’t fill the bill,” said the gentleman. “It should be a cowhide, or a whip, or a strap.” ….
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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?
Oliver Sydney,
Thanks for drawing attention to the item.
My understanding of the judicial paddle is covered by the following posts above, among others:
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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?
Perhaps some of either appeared here on Corpun but maybe some have not.
1902 — American Man Teacher Spanking Boy
1906 — Teacher Spanking Boy in Classroom
The Board of Education estimated date of between 1906 to 1910 from a postcard collection
Contemporary parody.
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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 previously asked if the paddle was or is used elsewhere in the world. I have discovered the paddle is known in parts of Latin America, including Mexico, for informal military, criminal gang and vigilante punishments, if not in schools.
Es come el clasico castigo que en las aulas del Heroico Colegio Militar se da a la potrada: golpes en las nalgas desnudas con una madera ancha, pesada y a toda velocidad.
The word “Tableado” is also used in connection with paddlings (= a beating with a plank?). The word may be related to the verb: tablear 1. To divide a garden into beds or plots; 2. To make the ground even with a thick board; 3. To hammer or roll bars of iron into flat plates; 4 To cut into boards or planks; 5. To pleat.
A plank is a tabla<i>.
There is no evidence to hand that the USA school paddle owes its existence to Spanish practice.
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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?
Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay has been called the Switzerland of South America due to its relative prosperity and stability.
The first were made of wood and different sizes according to the committed mischief. The student should get back to the master and crouch to be beaten on the buttocks with paddles while counting the number of spankings he received.
Las primeras eran de madera y de diferentes tamaños según la travesura cometida. El alumno debía ponerse de espaldas al maestro y agacharse para ser golpeado en las nalgas con las paletas mientras contaba el número de nalgadas que recibía.
Pedagogic Museum in Montevideo.
Comforting thought of the day.
The native practice is this, “The child’s bones belong to the parents; the child’s skin belongs to the teacher.”
Images of Pedagogic Museum below. Classroom doesn’t look that old. 50 years. We didn’t have an abacus though. Not too different from Catholic School Grades 1 to 8 in 1964. I hope they learned more than 2 + 2 = 4.
Students visiting a classroom in the South where the paddle was last used in antiquity. Re-enacting Renee, et. al. in typical 2014 garb. 
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?
Frog’s paddle of Anderson, SC. Possible slavery roots. Not that it was the same paddle of course but the paradigm of what was to come.
The paddle would be worth considerably more than the photo.
Excerpt from story. I love the $50 fee for research. I would be a millionaire.
According to statistics Young acquired from the districts, of the students paddled in District 1, there were 26 in kindergarten and first grade, the two most prevalent grade levels for spanking. The next-highest grade level was fourth grade, with 12 students paddled, followed by eighth grade with 10. Darlington paddled 79 students, and Abbeville paddled 62. But Young said the numbers for Abbeville are those for 2008-09 because the district refused to provide Young with the information unless she paid $50 to cover researching her request, and Young chose to use the previous year’s data instead.
Re: Slavery.
http://south-carolina-plantations.com/a … ounty.html
Testimonials to his paddle from the South Carolina State House.
He raised approximately 18,000 students the love, discipline, faith in their God-given abilities.
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess111_199 … s/3699.htm
RIP.
This belongs in my CP Lighter Side thread but I couldn’t resist.
Digging for news is so much more fun. Forgive me KK. ;(
Nineteenth Century America experienced a resurgence of fraternalism with more than three hundred new orders coming into being. Only some of the fraternities and lodges were associated with universities. Many included various schemes for selecting and initiating members, often involving a test of courage or trust.Late in the century, the entrepreneurial deMoulin brothers invented machines and devices, and quite possibly some of the rituals, to exploit the situation.
For some reason “spanking” with paddles was or became popular.
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmu … panker.htm
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmu … achine.htm
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmu … achine.htm
Classic Secret Society Machine follow up.
January 29, 20133.
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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?
Five strokes seems rather severe for talking too loud.
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 reported the following “news” item in another thread. Source
The item about a minor incident in New York City is reported in a Washington State newspaper. It is “soft news”, a human interest story. Such stories remains popular today and often displace real news.
Some of the details are likely to have been guessed rather than observed by the writer of the article, and based on the writer’s experiences.
The crime seems to have been rather a minor one – boisterous behaviour aboard a train. It is doubtful it would go to court these days unless the boys were recalcitrant. It is also doubtful that the judge’s intervention would be considered lawful today.
The implement used seems to have been a strap. It is unclear whether the strap was a trouser belt, or a specially made paddle-like device, or other. Philip asked his mother to scatter the blows suggesting the implement was narrow rather than wide. The target is implied by the fact he did not have to eat vertically after.
It is likely the boys received different and rather mild punishments, but perhaps enough to deter them and others from disconcerting passengers on the subway.
The word “paddling” is used in one place to describe the “spanking” with a strap. This suggests that the word “paddling” was well ingrained in the language and was already being used loosely in 1909.
Why are mothers spanking teenage sons? Of course, this was before “teenagers” were invented but surely it was a job for the fathers? And what sooks / blouses / wimps the younger boys were not taking their punishment like men. Most un British.
And what about the father trying to get his son off with a medical certificate? I asked for examples about fathers complaining about school CP in this thread and got no results.
What is “strap oil”? Where did the expression come from?
Soft news stories of this kind tell more about the social conditions and attitudes of the time rather than the hard facts of particular cases.
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 non-use of the paddle in San Francisco has been mentioned a number of times in this thread. The target is not specified in the 1910 rules but the palm of the hand is mentioned in earlier documents.
Communication by sea to the outside world was possibly more important than communication by land to the eastern and southern states of the USA.
Rules and Regulations of the Board of Education Governing the Public Schools of San Francisco (Adopted 1910)
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
Sec. 63. Corporal punishment shall not be administered in the high schools, nor to girls in any of the schools of the department. Such punishment must be administered by principals only, and shall be resorted to only in extreme cases when all other means fail to maintain discipline. No excessive, cruel or unusual punishment shall be allowed. The use of either the rattan or the strap in administering punishment is optional. Corporal punishment must be administered in presence of a witness.
Sec. 64. Principals must keep a record of all cases of corporal punishment, in a book provided for that purpose, which record shall include the name and age of the pupil, the offense committed and the character of the punishment. At the close of each school month, a transcript of this record shall be sent on official blanks to the Board and to the Superintendent.