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In reply to the discussion: DUers, Did Your School Use Corporal Punishment? [View all]zeusdogmom
(993 posts)Until she broke it when she hit a kid on his head with the paddle. She would also crumple up brown paper towels and stuff the talking kids mouths with the towels - then put tape over the mouth. Besides being mean, she was an AWFUL teacher - had no business what so ever being in the field. Other teachers - very little corporal. Punishments ranged from writing 200 times "I will not talk in class unless Mrs. Miller gives me the permission to do so" or being forced to sit on a little chair in the hallway - a sure sign of disgrace. Gum chewers might have to wear the wad of gum on the end of the nose. But hitting - only the old witch in the 5th grade classroom. Now this is not to say there wasn't a sound paddling or two once the misbehaving child returned home from school. Phone call from school to parent - hated when that happened 'cause I got wholloped. I talked a lot. 😁. Think I might have been a tad bored. This was all in the 1950's, rural MN