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Aristus

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25. A Department of Defense elementary school in the 1970's.

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:06 PM

Feb 2018

Yep.

The principal was Mr. Palege (not entirely sure about the spelling, but it was pronounced 'Puh-lezh'.) Everyone was terrified of him. He looked just like one of those scowling, chin-bearded old men in a 19th Century photograph. He routinely spanked students. Seeing him lead a crying student from his office back to the classroom was a near-daily occurence.

The 'no corporal punishment in the schools these days is why gun-massacres happen' types don't seem interested in explaining why so many gun massacres are committed by men in their 40's, 50's, and 60's, who went to school back when there was spaing in the schools.

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DUers, Did Your School Use Corporal Punishment? [View all] ProudLib72 Feb 2018 OP

in the 50s...yeah.. the teachers had paddles with holes in them to make it hurt more.. samnsara Feb 2018 #1

Did you actually know someone who was spanked? ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #5

Yes. This person is someone I am very close to. He was 6 years old. pnwmom Feb 2018 #21

There is no reason to beat a six year old! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #54

It was as much a part of the culture as hunting and fishing. pnwmom Feb 2018 #73

Yes. Many times. It was either the paddle with holes and painted red or weeks of after school retread Feb 2018 #75

Post removed Post removed Feb 2018 #137

Yeah, but they called it lunch jberryhill Feb 2018 #2

That's corporal punishment and against the law. BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #3

No, it's still legal in 19 states, and a Supreme Court decision upheld it -- pnwmom Feb 2018 #6

I thought they only did that in private and religious schools...ouch! BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #7

Actually, it is not against the law in many states. Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #10

It's worth noting most of those states are basically theocracies Major Nikon Feb 2018 #53

It used to be legal in most states. I remember when we moved to a state which was pnwmom Feb 2018 #74

Yeah, the paddle with holes to make it go faster and hit harder! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #13

Never. No god, no corporal punishment. smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #4

Yup,to the Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #8

No. The delight and relish some people display when talking about hitting children is disturbing. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2018 #9

Yes snowybirdie Feb 2018 #11

Nuns were horrible . Priests at boys HS were worse punch you in the face... although I saw some lunasun Feb 2018 #112

I had a first grade teacher who would get behind a child put her hands on their shoulders and njhoneybadger Feb 2018 #12

Holy crap! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #20

I had a teacher who shook a boy. A Mrs. Stanley. I still remember how the boy's cheeks pnwmom Feb 2018 #27

My First Grade Teacher RobinA Feb 2018 #109

The parochial school I went to certainly did, and it could be brutal Siwsan Feb 2018 #14

Most public schools used to allow it decades ago. Now 19 still do. pnwmom Feb 2018 #33

My 5th grade teacher gave swats for bad grades.... Thomas Hurt Feb 2018 #15

Late 60s elementary school treestar Feb 2018 #16

Not officially, but MountCleaners Feb 2018 #17

That's a point I was thinking of: it backfires ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #32

We had it in grade school. I got the paddle for throwing a snowball at another kid. jalan48 Feb 2018 #18

Born in 80. Nope. Nt moriah Feb 2018 #19

No. Igel Feb 2018 #22

60s MFM008 Feb 2018 #23

Started elementary in the 70s in California eissa Feb 2018 #24

A Department of Defense elementary school in the 1970's. Aristus Feb 2018 #25

Nope. Never saw a student hit by any teacher. Never heard tell of it either. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #26

Yep, i was in a Christian Brothers school and the weapon of choice was the leather, which OnDoutside Feb 2018 #28

Was this in the US or Ireland? ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #46

Ireland. Actually it was a lay teacher who gave my class the most in a 45 minute period OnDoutside Feb 2018 #51

Bunch of little gurriers you lot were I bet! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #58

We were good boys, honest ! ;) Actually that teacher is still teaching in the school 36 years later. OnDoutside Feb 2018 #61

Nope. sakabatou Feb 2018 #29

Yes GrapesOfWrath Feb 2018 #30

Yes that was a favorite trick to intimidate Ohiogal Feb 2018 #87

Yes... targetpractice Feb 2018 #31

I remember names on the board! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #41

I had an English teacher in 7th grade Ohiogal Feb 2018 #85

Not sure if it was allowed loyalsister Feb 2018 #34

sort of surrealAmerican Feb 2018 #35

Class of 1998-- definitely not crazycatlady Feb 2018 #36

I was spanked once. In the first grade. nolabear Feb 2018 #37

No, they focused on humiliation and shame. Paddling might have been over quicker. n/t TygrBright Feb 2018 #38

Yes. Turbineguy Feb 2018 #39

The first state I lived in used it. And some of the teachers of older kids did "birthday spankings." pnwmom Feb 2018 #40

Yes. "Paddled" to the point of bruising by my 6th grade teacher (a man) in the mid 1970s, California Mrs. Overall Feb 2018 #42

Up through junior high. A paddle. That was in the early 70s. AJT Feb 2018 #43

No way, and I went to school in the 50s Hamlette Feb 2018 #44

in England, yes Skittles Feb 2018 #45

According to Children's Defense Fund 2009-10 data, there were 150,000 uses of CP per year. pnwmom Feb 2018 #47

Yes, we had nuns in grade school and a crazy vice principal who was known to stuff kids in their bettyellen Feb 2018 #48

For sure. Polly Hennessey Feb 2018 #49

There was a DUer who'd made this issue her mission. I remember a lot of people pnwmom Feb 2018 #50

Mine didn't. But... demmiblue Feb 2018 #52

No, never in my schools in NY City and State, '50s - 60s, elleng Feb 2018 #55

Went to school in the late 60's through the mid-70's Mr. Ected Feb 2018 #56

Here, corporal punishment are absolutely and totally forbidden syringis Feb 2018 #57

Oh yes, we are so civilized in the US! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #71

Yes - even paddling as a "joke" left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #59

Yes. I watched the principal slam a kid against a wall. davsand Feb 2018 #60

My 9th-grade science teacher's blackboard couldn't be used. The periodic table chart was pulled tblue37 Feb 2018 #121

Was called licks thbobby Feb 2018 #62

Never saw it - Minnesota in the '50s/early'60s. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #63

Got paddled in 6th grade for passing a note to another classmate that had sexual content. Chipper Chat Feb 2018 #64

Yes. guillaumeb Feb 2018 #65

Yes bluecollar2 Feb 2018 #66

Yes. And one didn't tell parents about it 'cause you'll get it worse for causing trouble in school. Kaleva Feb 2018 #67

Ruler rapping zentrum Feb 2018 #68

5th grade teacher used a ping pong paddle zeusdogmom Feb 2018 #69

That reminds of a time I got in trouble teaching 5th graders ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #76

Chicago Public Schools, 1953-1966: N0! raging moderate Feb 2018 #70

Well, it was legal in Illinois then, so you were lucky. pnwmom Feb 2018 #78

I got it many times d_r Feb 2018 #72

Oh hell yeah. A lot. Codeine Feb 2018 #77

I've read your posts ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #120

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OMG how humiliating Ohiogal Feb 2018 #95

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When I Look Back RobinA Feb 2018 #113

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You know what I bet? ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #122

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Yep. And if it happened to me at school, rateyes Feb 2018 #80

Never. Graduated HS 1957, Missouri. nt IphengeniaBlumgarten Feb 2018 #81

Early 60's. Pledge of Allegiance, prayer, paddled unruly boys. Made us "good" citizens! retread Feb 2018 #82

1980s rownesheck Feb 2018 #83

Ruler whacks on knuckles Generic Brad Feb 2018 #84

Depends on where I was living... regnaD kciN Feb 2018 #86

More often than not GaryCnf Feb 2018 #88

Yes. 1965 HS grad here. The vice principal had Hekate Feb 2018 #89

Yes until 1960. sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #90

Yep. Itchinjim Feb 2018 #91

Not in my schools in small town CA MineralMan Feb 2018 #92

You didn't move to Missiouri... reACTIONary Feb 2018 #97

No... MineralMan Feb 2018 #100

Well, not to dis my friends and relatives who live there, but... reACTIONary Feb 2018 #102

But if those kids don't stay off your lawn....watch out! ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #134

That is a two sided coin nolabels Feb 2018 #140

My home town was a good place to grow up, for sure. MineralMan Feb 2018 #145

I was in elementary school in the 1950's. Spanking was common. I only got one, for talking Glorfindel Feb 2018 #93

Catholic school, yes. Public school, not after 3rd grade. Tatiana Feb 2018 #94

In California, No... in Missouri... reACTIONary Feb 2018 #96

Nope, and I went to Catholic school in the 1960s thru mid-70s. GoCubsGo Feb 2018 #98

I was a regular to the ruler.. angstlessk Feb 2018 #111

My school didn't, but it was still legal in UK schools until 1986 LeftishBrit Feb 2018 #99

If only those kids had gone to church Nevernose Feb 2018 #101

Thoughts and prayers ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #123

My father was arrested after my sixth grade vice principal used the paddle on me. MrsCoffee Feb 2018 #103

There was paddling in our school Texasgal Feb 2018 #104

I'm going to have to remember to ask my parents about consent ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #125

There were lots of threats and one teacher had a paddle hanging right next to the Sophia4 Feb 2018 #105

Got swats as we called it several times in middle school BannonsLiver Feb 2018 #106

Public elementary school in Indiana. Late sixties. Kindergarten. Crunchy Frog Feb 2018 #107

Yes. newblewtoo Feb 2018 #108

I stopped teaching 11 years ago. Teachers/principals were still paddeling in Alabama. MelissaB Feb 2018 #114

In the 70s I got plenty of "swats". It was better than having to stay after school. n.t USALiberal Feb 2018 #115

I graduated from high school in 1968. Yes, there was plenty of corporal punishment in tblue37 Feb 2018 #116

yep....1950's & 60's spanone Feb 2018 #117

Yes! Rural ohio, early 70s to early 80s, had my fair share of paddling Marengo Feb 2018 #118

Yes Daphne08 Feb 2018 #119

One of my earliest school memories Desert grandma Feb 2018 #124

After reading these comments ... Ohiogal Feb 2018 #126

The Greatest Generation had it worse. Kaleva Feb 2018 #130

I'll never forget one old witch I had in second grade in Texas- callous taoboy Feb 2018 #142

One High School I went to had it, One didn't Wolf Frankula Feb 2018 #127

This goes back to the "corporal punishment causes rebellion" theme ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #132

I knew the 8th grader Wolf Frankula Feb 2018 #135

If I had been the principal, I would have been embarrassed, too ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #146

No....went to mostly DOD schools - 1960s LeftInTX Feb 2018 #128

Sure did in the 50s and 60s and we liked it doc03 Feb 2018 #129

Yes and lots of them DVRacer Feb 2018 #131

No but my son's school does. I actually had to sign an opt-out form! Luciferous Feb 2018 #133

Oh yeah, in 60s. Hoyt Feb 2018 #136

Myt brothers grew up in Texas in the 60s and 70s: callous taoboy Feb 2018 #141

In Catholic School until very recently this was done. My Mom made it clear that no one touched us Demsrule86 Feb 2018 #143

I Saw It, Yes ProfessorGAC Feb 2018 #144