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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?
School trustees chose the paddle and ruler in preference to the hand or strap (California, 1959)
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?
Pandybat = A stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict punishment – especially by using it to strike against the open uplifted hands on schoolboys. Not to be confused with wooden paddles as used in the USA, it would seem.
Source: Reading Eagle – Nov 3, 1965
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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?
Slave owners used paddles as they did not want to leave lasting marks. We have speculated that school teachers might have preferred the paddle as they did not want to leave temporary marks. This definitely seems to have been a concern in Toronto way back in 1879 according to this news item:
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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?
KK this is a follow up on your strap oil posting.
The Spanking Judge. Judge Willard Olmsted.
The Courtroom Picture.
An Amusing Courtroom Drawing.
Sound Spanking for Stone Throwers. Spanking Parlor Needed. Fourth Column First Story.
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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?
It seems paddles were widely used in the early days in the USA, including in sport.
The Spokesman-Review (Washington) Friday 1 Nov. 1912, page 15
Spanking a six-foot football player sounds like kidding, but at Cornell it is no joke. At Ithaca [NY] the coaches have a large paddle within easy reach and when a player starts to loaf, “Whackety bang!” goes the paddle on the laggard.
Where’s his laggard?
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The Washington Herald (DC) Saturday 18 February, 1922, page 10.
Basketball Mentor Makes Use of Paddle
CINCINNATI. Feb. 17. A basket ball coach with a paddle, which he uses in pepping up his team, appeared here in connection with the tri-State tourney for high school teams which opened with fifty-three teams in line.
Jack Converse, former Centre College athlete, is the coach with the paddle. He is mentor of the Monticello, Ky., team, which is considered a strong contender for the championship.
Converse put his squad through early practice, and whenever any player lagged a bit he would whip the paddle out of his pocket and crack the boy on the seat of his trousers. One boy who was late in getting dressed got a lick when he appeared on the floor.
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?
Cobbing (informal CP administered by peers) has been mentioned previously as a possible precursor to school paddling. A poem first published in 1818 gives some insights into the practice.
John Mitford, also known as Jack Mitford (1782 – 1831), was a British naval officer, poet and journalist.
Johnny Newcome (a generic term for new recruits) is a clergyman’s son who is forced to leave school and join the navy when his clergyman father loses all his money in a banking crash. He embarks on HMS Capricorn at Sheerness and, under the good Captain Dale his career prospers, but in Jamaica yellow fever strikes the ship, Captain Dale dies and is replaced by the bullying Captain Teak, and Johnny regretfully leaves the navy. Another edition of Johnny Newcome appeared the following year, and the poem was reprinted by Methuen in 1905.
Newcome mistakenly uses seawater rather than fresh when he was rostered to help the cook prepare a meal. This is discovered by his messmates ….
Some five potential cobbing implements are mentioned in the poem, namely:
1. Burgoo stirrer. Burgoo is an oatmeal porridge. A wooden spoon or paddle.
2. Dog’s-body squeezer. Dog’s-body was a concoction made by boiling hard dried peas in a cloth bag which was then squeezed between of hinged paddles to flatten and soften the peas to a smooth paste.
3. Bung-stave of a cask
4. Sole of an old shoe
5. Gunter’s scale. A Gunter’s scale was a precursor of the slide rule. Typically of wood and measuring 600 mm by 40 mm, it was engraved with various scales required for navigation including sines, tangents and logarithms. A pair of compasses was used to add measurements and compare values on different scales.
A hawbuck is an unmannerly lout; a clown.
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?
Settlers likely brought their customs with them before merging them with local customs. Does this explain the territorial distribution of school paddling in the USA?
Previously discussed here
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 school paddle does seem to be used more in the former slave states than elsewhere. However, I have found no evidence of a link between slavery and the adoption of the paddle in schools decades later. There appears to be no correlation between the number of slaves in 1860 and present-day paddling numbers (see Corpun).
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 Sylva Herald and Ruralite (North Carolina) Thursday 24 August, 2006, page 6C
Remembering past back-to-school days. From one room schoolhouses to modern classrooms Excerpt:
Discipline
In the 17th and 18th centuries, wood canes were used for discipline, and leather straps and hickory switches were added during the 1850s. By the 1890s, a paddle was the most common disciplinary method used. It was usually in sight of students as a reminder.
In today’s schools, discipline is not as physical. Educators are no longer allowed to paddle students for misbehavior; instead, they take away privileges. Administrators have the option to suspend and even expel students from school for repeated bad behavior.
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The writer is not identified, nor their source of information. It is unclear whether they are describing schools in their town, state or the USA. Canes were unlikely to have been made or wood. There is some confusion between “discipline” and “punishment”.
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?
