The paddle. No schools should have one.

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NewTime
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27 Jan 2026, 5:57 am

The paddle should be taken out of every school that has one and employees at schools should never strike kids for any reasons.



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27 Jan 2026, 6:27 am

I agree. I wasn't aware they still had them. I'm pretty sure they don't in the UK now. I went to a fairly strict grammar school in the 80s and they didn't have corporal punishment.


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27 Jan 2026, 7:51 am

Our pe teacher used to use the slipper


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27 Jan 2026, 2:40 pm

When I was little the teachers would give you the strap. They don't anymore, and corporal punishment hasn't been a thing in most schools in Canada for decades, but I read that in Alberta some schools still used the strap until 2004.

Good ol' Alberta, the Canadian version of the Deep South in the US. :roll:



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27 Jan 2026, 2:48 pm

The strap, the split cane, the blackboard ruler..

I'm no stranger to the little corporal.

But I turned out all right... Sort of.



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04 Feb 2026, 9:11 pm

I read Roald Dahl's story about how he became a writer, and as a kid he had to go to one of those British boarding school's for boys, where he and the others would get caned for practically anything that's normal for kids to do. He described a situation where he was called to the headmaster's office to be caned because he had a bent nib and had asked a classmate if he had an extra one he could borrow. Roald Dahl descibed was very descriptive with the caning part, it was both horrifying and amazing. The swish, smack, of each time the cane hit you, and after a certain number of of smacks the pain didn't any worse, it just prolonged the pain. Then you'd finally hear voice saying "You may go.", but it sounded like it was coming from a cave about a million miles away, and then you'd pull up your trousers and stumble out of the room walking on your toes.

Yeah, I guess Dahl didn't have a very happy childhood. That might explain why most of his most famous stories are about kids who are unhappy and are treated very badly, except they'd have happy endings.



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05 Feb 2026, 12:28 am

Schools shouldn't have had corporal punishment to begin with.


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05 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm

^I agree.

One day when I was in forth grade, our principal went to all the classrooms showing off a paddle he had just broke on a students butt. It was like our principal had won a contest & was showing off his trophy :tongue: :evil: Very luckily the school required parents to sign paperwork giving permission to perform corporal punishment. My parents never signed off on that. One time at my previous school my parents had a meeting with my teacher & principal because my teacher had spanked me & my parents had signed paperwork stating that the school was no allowed do that. I don't remember any of that or what grade I was in but the school only went up to 3rd grade.


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05 Feb 2026, 3:50 pm

I think once it had been proven corporeal punishment was child abuse, entire school staff should have been overhauled or charged with child abuse and or accessory since there is little chance that a single one of the staff did not hurt a child, but that is my extreme nature talking.

I hate child abusers, whether or not it is 'legal' or 'culturally acceptable'.


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