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?

Despite a lot of research it is still unclear why the paddle became so popular in US schools notwithstanding its serious limitations.

In the US, SCP decisions were made at a local level, the documentation of which has not made it onto the Internet.

The need not to leave marks that might offend parents, and the greater influence of parents, rather than professional educators, may have lead to the domestic paddle being preferred.

Paddles of various description were used outside the USA, including in my own country. Understanding why may be helpful in understanding what happened in the USA.
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In 1888, after only four years’ teaching, Walter Empson was offered the headmastership of Wanganui Collegiate School following the death of Harvey. Empson’s 21-year headmastership coincided with a considerable growth of independent schools in New Zealand and the transformation of many into state schools, particularly after 1902–3. Inheriting a securely established school, he was able to concentrate his energies on its development and wrought far-reaching and revolutionary changes. Growth of character rather than mere book learning was his objective. Known to his students simply as ‘The Man’, he combined a spirit of camaraderie with strict discipline (corporal punishment was meted out with a fives bat for maximum sound and moral effect).

He was a firm believer in allowing the boys to govern themselves as much as possible and entrusted to them many branches of school activity: he developed the prefectorial system, appointed senior boys instead of masters as officers in the cadet corps, and handed over the production of the school magazine to the students. Sport became an organised element of the curriculum, for Empson saw it as an important medium for the development of loyalty, physical potential and personal and team skills. Another innovation, adopted from Loretto School in Scotland, was the introduction of shorts and open-necked flannel shirts as the school uniform. Although initially frowned on, this set a fashion which eventually spread beyond Wanganui Collegiate to become almost universal in New Zealand secondary schools.
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Source of excerpt: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies … son-walter

My own high school followed Empson’s innovations although the cane rather than the fives bat reigned.

Empson became a teacher, aged about 28, after trying diverse occupations and seems to have been a “natural”. (A good case can be made for requiring would-be teachers to have some non-academic experience before taking up teaching.)

How do the sounds of paddles and canes compare? Which is loudest or sharpest? A loud “crack” or “smack” is presumably better than a dull “thud”.

Is the “moral effect” dependent on sight, sound or pain? What is the role of reputation or history? Is a little known implement more effective than a familiar?

KK sorry for not catching the paddling of the three colored girls under your magisterial thread. Let there be peace in the valley. American Way

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Paddy Whack!

Maysville KY. Daily Public Ledger. Leap year. February 29, 1896.

Snippets.

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Second Part. Parental permission.

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Boy Fails to Set Punishment As Half a Spanking

Los Angeles Herald January 10, 1917

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Not so lucky were the boys who had to endure the “peace paddle” with ten strokes.

Los Angeles Herald January 3, 1917.

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The Peace Paddle is not to be mistaken for this one.

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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 been exploring how and why the paddle came to be the preferred implement for administering CP in US schools. I have already established that it is very unlikely there was any direct link with slavery. Rather, I have suggested that US parents had more influence on school CP practice than professional educators and teachers. In the USA, education was and is largely locally organized and funded. Parents were and are often more heavily involved in setting school policy than in the UK.

Not leaving marks on children’s bodies was a major concern in public schools in the USA. There was no similar concern in my own British tradition high school. It was not possible to adequately punish a boy without leaving conspicuous and long-lasting marks on his buttocks.

In many states in the USA:

The teacher, in the absence of regulations prescribed by the trustees (school board), has the same power of punishment as the parent. But this right must be exercised with the same discretion and limitations that would be expected of a kind and judicious parent.
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The term “kind and judicious” rose in popularity in the digitised books surveyed by Google in the 19th century, peaking about 1840-50 before declining. The term was applied to kings, fathers, parents, advisers, etc. (“Percent” in the following diagram refers to the total number of words in all books surveyed.)

In the UK, where those in charge were educated in long established grammar and so called public schools*, punishments which school teachers might reasonably use became the benchmark for parent and judicially-order CP even though teachers derived their powers from the concept of in loco parentis (Latin for “in the place of a parent”) established in English common law much earlier. See here.

* Privately-owned schools open to the public or at least those wealthy enough to pay school fees and of suitable social status.

Kind and judicious parent benchmark for school and other CP was previously mentioned previously, here:

1.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1367599927

2.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1412064389

3.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1412116186

4.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1412118917

5.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1412234444

6.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1412238795

7.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1442528490

8.http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/m … 1465625833

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?

FYI. Shingle.

November 12, 2010 at 6:47 AM

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On a lighter note this may be more applicable a half a dozen years later.

November 12, 2010 at 2:13 PM

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Classroom Management: Its Principles and Technique 1910. By William Chandler Bagley.

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KK may I ask a favor from one researcher to another. Is there anyway I can access without payment the Hartford Courant?

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 – thanks for drawing attention to the important omission which was your discovery.

I know no way of accessing the Hartford Courant. Very few issues are available free online.
https://archive.org/details/hartfordcourant1219unse
https://archive.org/details/hartforddailycou00ancl

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?

Dangerous Business: Spanking Modern Boy Likely To Start Active Volcano.

These explosive paddling incidences were far more prevalent than I originally thought until KK enlightened me how common carrying explosives in one’s back pocket in that era.

Daily East Oregonian, Pendleton, Oregon. November 11, 1917.

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Today, it’s concealed handguns as I recently posted. Add that to a powerful brew and you have a perfect storm.

Jägermeister This liqueur is made of 56 herbs and that’s the only healthy thing about it. The “hunting master” (translated from German) will surely go after your liver and you won’t run fast enough to escape it. Germans humorously call the drink “liver glue”, or Leberkleister. Maybe it’s no coincidence that this word rhymes with the name of the liqueur. We have all reasons to believe the Germans – the 35% Jägermeister is so sweet and sticky that before you realize it, it will have glued your liver. With German accuracy.
Prior posted. This girl is packing heat.

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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?

The story may be based on a real event but has clearly been expanded and elaborated to match the author’s and artist’s expectations and understanding, or that they expect their readers to understand.

If we believe the article, grocers supplied heavy, oversized modified barrel laths for spanking in 1909. (Barrels were used to store and transport diverse products.)

Who in the right mind would have beaten anyone with such devices to the point of incapacitation?

The above item has appeared in this forum before and has recently been noted by American Way in another thread.