Why not make paddling confined to the novels of J Fenimore Cooper instead?
Why is it beyond the wit of 21st-century man to make the punishment fit the crime?
For example, students duck their responsibilities and cut classes or don’t hand in assignments. OK, they go on a special lunch detail for one week.
This special detail has a dinner lady(or whatever you call them, American Way)or two who can’t be asked to cook their meals on time.
Or to present something nutritious or remotely attractive to look at, let alone eat!
That teaches the kids what it’s like being on the receiving end of “Man, I just don’t give a f**k” attitude. And in an unpleasant manner that gets the message home a bit faster.
The teacher also doesn’t have to demean their (possibly, IMHO) hallowed professional status in administering CP. As you probably know, the judicial use of this was once administered publicly by the lowest of the low public hangmen, who nearly always got HIS job by being a previously condemned man willing to hang the present incumbent!
This was one of the delightful little British traits we sent over with the Pilgrim Fathers-sorry, it was not a very good exchange for potatoes or tobacco, was it?