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holyfamilypenguin4,5593
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: School corporal punishment in Ohio 1889 with a paddle.
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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?
The Classroom Management 1910 thread contains material of interest.
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?
Thanks American Way.
The paddling mentioned in the 1889 item was metaphoric rather then literal but it does establish the school paddle was well known in Ohio and Illinois at this time. The context is given below. It seems there was some banter going on between teacher journals in the two states.
The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education
Volume 38, page 326 (1889). Editorial comment
THE TWO QUARRELSOME BOYS
Our readers will remember that some time ago we had occasion to administer a little wholesome discipline to a couple of quarrelsome boys out in Illinois, and some of them may be interested in knowing how these boys took their drubbing. Their names are Brown and Vale. This is the way Brown talks about it:
The venerable editor of the Ohio School Journal (?) gives the Intelligence and the Illinois School Journal a sound spanking in good old-education fashion in his April number. He thought he heard them calling each other names, and, true to his school-master instinct, he rushed for his paddle. He did not seem to know or care what it was all about, or whether or not it was a personal quarrel. Like an old war horse, as he is, he can sniff a battle from afar, and the habit of taking a hand in such affrays was too strong for his school-master nature to resist. He seemed a little in doubt after he had finished, whether he did not deserve to have his own ears boxed for meddling, but that was evidently not a new sensation and he ‘let it pass.’ But his victims have no disposition to be rude to the old gentleman, and they rather enjoyed his fatherly admonition after the smart was over. His solemnity would be appalling to one who was not a constant reader of his journal.”
We were very hopeful of Brown until we read that last sentence; then we began to fear there would be further need of the paddle. He must have said that before “the smart was over,” and perhaps his sense of solemnity is the natural and proper thing under the circumstances. At any rate, we notice that the quarrel stopped instantly. Neither has called the other a bad name since. Vale, especially, has behaved well for him. After hearing what Brown said about “solemnity,” he only said it over after him in a way to indicate that the smart is not yet entirely over, in his case. On the whole, we are highly gratified with the result of our efforts in behalf of these boys.
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holyfamilypenguin4,5593
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?
Big Four School, Oklahoma graduated its first high school class in 1924. A girl name Pam was on the receiving end. According to the OCR records the girls were paddled more equitably with boys than other states. From the 2006/2007 record the state ranked fourth in the number of students paddled. 2008/2009 figures may be published in 2011. Note the shape of the paddle.
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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 speculated that wooden shingles used for cladding buildings or in the kitchen as a plate or chopping board might have been employed as a punishment paddle. However, note the following:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shingle
Etymology 2
From French dialect chingler (to strap, whip), from Latin cingula (girt, belt) from cingere (to girt)
Verb: to shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)
1.( transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. To lash with a shingle.
The imp’s bottom was shingled black and blue
Noun: shingle (plural shingles)
1. A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
This seems an unlikely alternative for the USA.
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A related thread: Classroom Management 1910
http://www.network54.com/Forum/198833/thread/1289432033
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holyfamilypenguin4,5593
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?
Early use of the paddle. This had a Kansas postmark of 1907. The early part of the 20th century had no lack of posed jocular spankings in or out of the school context. It’s a long link so I abbreviated it. I think spanking rather than free bending over position prevailed, possibly because schooling ended young. Corbis has a few and one I really enjoyed of a woman spanking a man with a baseball bat. What could be more American and equal rights than that?
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 instruments of correction varied from what can be gathered by this news story when I was a student. I think the switch would involve a rural woodshed type experience endured by my latest inductee while a cane and paddle were also considered fair game as well as strap and ruler/yard stick on both sides. I think the Irish nuns brought the cane (pointers) idea here while the paddle emigrated from the south and the switch from the frontier. For the nuns had the ruler for the hand and the yardstick for the bottom and a thrown eraser. I mentioned the latter and was boo hoo hoo by one of the posters here. I have thick skin and thicker since I’ve posted here. That was the one thing that upset people the most for its danger potential. The ultimate no/no is to teach a kid not to throw sticks and stones and erasers are somewhere in between.
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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?
The headline for the following news item suggests that by 1950 the paddle was so well established that paddling had become synonymous with smacking / spanking, terms which themselves are often used as euphemisms for something generally rather more harsh than being struck with the open hand.
The Bend Bulletin, Bend, Oregon
Wednesday May 10, 1950
Broad Paddle, Not Hickory, Recommended for Paddling
Lorain, O. (UP) School children here will be taught their “reading and writing and ‘rithmetic” to the tune of a broad paddle instead of the traditional hickory stick.
That’s the decision of a 100-page manual of regulations adopted by the Lorain school board.
The new rules state that when ail other corrective measures fail, corporal punishment may be administered by a broad paddle approved by the superintendent and the board of education.
The day when teachers fashioned their own custom-made weapons of discipline is a thing of the past. Each paddle used must be approved by the school board.
Place Prescribed
Student pranksters no longer need wonder where to anticipate one of teacher’s wild swings. The manual says punishment shall be administered by “striking the pupil across the buttocks with a broad paddle and in no other manner.”
A teacher with faulty aim may be suspend the school board.
To insure that the right technique is used, the rules require that two other members of the school witness the paddling.
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?
Carl F Kaestle. (1978)
Social change, Discipline and the Common School in Early Nineteenth Century America
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9 (1) 1-17.
Historians interested in childhood and education are well aware of the sharp rise in educators’ attention to discipline and character formation in the nineteenth century, especially in the decades of school reform after 1840. This article relates the urgent concern for school discipline to other developments in early industrial America. It comments upon two explanations offered recently and proposes a broader explanation which at once supports and revises the functionalist framework as it is applied to the history of education.
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?
Greensburg Daily Tribune, October 31, 1904
PADDLE ABOLISHED
Unruly Youngsters Punished in That Mode at McKeesport [PA, USA]
The committee on discipline and morals of the board of school directors of McKeesport Wednesday night adopted a resolution to abolish the use of the “paddle.” The paddle is about three feet long and is used in place of a rattan to punish unruly pupils. Richard Farmer, father of John Farmer, a pupil, charged Prof. Foster with cruelly beating his son. The board heard the testimony and reserved its decision until next Monday night.