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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?
I have suggested that parents in the paddling states may have required schools to use forms of CP commonly used by parents at home. A similar requirement may have come from senior policy markers and managers in order to guard against excess severity by teachers. By contrast, in the UK, the standard for acceptable CP was often that traditionally used by schoolmasters.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076 … =%3Bseq=93
Department of Public Instruction
City of Leavenworth [Kansas].
Fifth Annual Report of The Board of Education, For The Year Ending June 25, 1869.
Leavenworth:
Times Job Printing House, 15 Shawnee Street.
1870.
[. . .]
“That the instructors should aim at such discipline in their school as would be exercised by kind and judicious parents.”
A report is required from every teacher of every case of corporal punishment, the degree and the cause.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062 … %3Bseq=257
Annual Reports
Board of Education
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Being the Twenty-Fourth Annual Report Upon the Schools of New Hampshire.
June Session, 1870.
Manchester:
John B. Clarke, State Printer
1870.
Excerpt page 243:
“All instructors shall aim at such discipline in their schools as would be exercised by a kind, judicious parent in his family; shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder measures; and in no case shall resort be had to confinement in a closet, or to other cruel or unusual punishment, as a discipline. Corporal punishment shall be inflicted only after the nature of the offence has been fully explained to the scholar, and shall be restricted to blows on the hand with a rattan, except in cases where a pupil refuses to submit to such punishment.” [See Regulations of the Public Schools of Boston. Chap. VIII, Sec. 13.]
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An early use of the expression “kind and judicious parents” occurs in the following book:
Australiana; thoughts on convict management, and other subjects connected with the Australian penal colonies.
Alexander Maconochie
London, Parker, 1839.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002 … %3Bseq=112
The author argues, among other things, that degradation (humiliation) should not be part of any 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?
1880 Sarnia Ontario
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=5 … 63,4375405
1891 Spokane Washington
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 … 03,3112654
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 notion of a “judicious parent” was known in the Middle Ages, if not earlier. King Henry IV of England was so described.
“Kind” and “firm” came to be added, probably later, and possibly well before the expression “kind judicious parent” was adopted in progressive Boston in 1844, or earlier. (A school committee was established decades earlier and I have yet to establish when it first started to regulate corporal punishment.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=i2QwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11
At a meeting of the School Committee of the City of Boston, held December 7, 1844, the following Rules and Regulations were adopted by the unanimous vote of the Board.
Chapter 1
Sect. 6. The instructers shall practice such discipline in the schools as would be exercised by a kind, judicious parent in his family ; and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder measures. When inflicted it shall take place in the presence of the school.
This is the earliest statement of its kind I have found. Similar wording was used by other school districts in the decades following.
The school committee may have been recognising public expectations of the time rather than inventing a new standard. In any event, it was official recognition that parents set the standard for CP in schools. SCP was to be modelled on that used by kind judicious parents.
Boston used the rattan so did not directly promote the use of the paddle. Elsewhere, if parents paddled their offspring at home there were likely to be paddled at school.
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?
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/139 … =%3Bseq=15
7. It is enjoined on the instructers to keep the children out of idleness, and give them as full employment as possible; to exercise vigilant, prudent, and firm discipline; to punish as sparingly as is consistent with effect; and to govern by persuasion and gentle measures, so far as is practicable. Standing in the place of parents for the time being, it shall be their duty to endeavour to exercise severally over their pupils all that authority, and that only, which must be exercised by a kind and judicious father of a family, to obtain and ensure the prompt obedience and good deportment of his children.
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?
My understanding continues to evolve in real time before your very eyes.
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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?
KK. You’re probably aware of this tool but other researchers may find this worthwhile to note.
You will be blocked on page 17 as an example. Page 17 can be found oif you scroll to the very bottom.
But if you Google words that are not too common like corporal punishment eating and training youth up comes page 17.
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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?
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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?
American Way, please cut and paste the text on page 17 here if it relevant to the topic of this thread. Please use computing corner 2 to discuss book access.
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?
https://archive.org/details/corporalpunishm00unkngoog
I found nothing in the document that I recognised as being relevant to the question as to why the paddle became popular in US schools.
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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?
https://archive.org/details/corporalpunishm00unkngoog
KK No need to copy and paste. Hit full screen on bottom and and use search inside in upper right corner then put a key word in this case (eating) and up comes an orange arrow and after you hit the arrow just right click and open in new window page 17.