Ah, Katie, I agree wholeheartedly. As far as the parents being subjected to it, I have a good story in the library about that.

A Principal with Principles - 1

You're right. Some of these parents have no control, but I have to put the blame on the state governments as well. Many have taken discipline out of the home for many parents in fear that they will be brought up on charges and losing their children (temporarily) to a foster home. Sad but true.

Great job, Katie.

B

A good article on the use of the paddle. Sill, in the home, the hand should be more than sufficient. As I had already mentioned in this "Wellred Weekly" and other statements, CP can be dangerous. A home with good understanding parents, will not need CP on their children. I had read that CP in schools, had resulted in blood clots and in one case, the child died.

Interesting, especially the part about who really cares about the paddle as long as it works well...LOL

Actually in Canada spanking is not banned, it is still legal for anyone between the ages of 2 and 12 according to our Supreme Court just a few years back, There are many discussions around what should be but about 57% of Canadians still use CP.

What is right or wrong I do not know but I believe each family should make their own decision, Now of course with adults then paddle or be paddled to one's heart content.

The choice of paddles is vast but I believe if it is comfortable, has a good weight and lenght for the spanker to handle well, the paddle can be very effective.

I've always thought of the paddle as a typically American implement. Down here we used rulers, wooden spoons, canes and leather straps. I encountered the paddle in my reading later on, and it was mainstream stuff, not spanking literature. I have particular memories from a book called American Maid by Shylah Boyd, who describes a paddling she received at age 18 from her principal.

Don't forget Sorority and Fraternity paddles. Some paddles have a story to tell, hint, hint, check out the Oak-43 paddle if you want to hear a paddle's view of a spanking. I love your coverage of paddles uses in spanking. Thank you very much for this well written article.

Highly informative with plenty of very interesting detail! Thank you.

Interesting, I suppose it all depends what you have grown up with. Paddles probably don't do it for me because they were amongst the few things we weren't hit with at school!! Apparently, according to a scientific paper I read recently, it's a defence mechanism! We erotocise what scares us, ie being punished. So of course we further erotocise the object we are punished with. Which maybe why some of us, on this side of the water, erotocise the cane and some of you Americans erotocise the paddle!!? It must be like being hit with a plank!

As a California educator (albeit at the college level), I think paddling has no place in education. I personally think that teachers that paddle are not competent managers of their classrooms. Again, I am always surprised and disappointed when people with a sexual fetish involving spanking and paddling think that it has any place in the treatment of children -- and especially when the hitting is done by an educator.

Your article has a luscious look. All these beautiful paddles are quite alluring. Each paragraph brings forth yet another more beautiful. It kept me reading, but slowed me down.

What marvelous competition between art and literature. I like how you slid in a few spanking cameos in the middle of a non fiction piece. Your article reminded me what I most liked about this implement, it's looks.
Great article
Lovely informative tone, naughty teacher stories, lots of measurements and figures. That is a perfect combination.
IC

Although they are not as pretty Lexan paddles are more effective than wooden ones and they are practically indestructable. In addition to the 19 states that allow corporal punishment in public schools 48 states allow its use in private schools.

Michael Masterson of Real Spankings Institude has some interesting tales of real life paddlings in schools, mostly in Texas where he was a teen. Look for them under "Real Life" at his blog at: http://www.thespankingblog.com/index.php

Katie B. You get an A+ that was very well done and I actually learned a thing or two. When I read you were from Texas it made sense why the Paddle would be so dear and near to your heart. One of my "fluttering stomach" moments was when I was kid and saw a paddle hanging from a hook on the refrigerator at my friends house. She said her mom used it on her and her brothers and sisters. It had a caption on it that said" For the naughty little deer with the bare behind" LOL the a picture of bambi with a tanned rump. Good job.

Very interesting article. Quite informative. As a former teacher I witnessed students being paddled a number of times, but I never did it myself. This brought back memories.

Interesting article; sort of a "Paddling Primer". Enjoyed the illustrations, as well.

Katie, very nice work, I think you did a great job of addressing the issue of the paddle. Many have been paddled in USA schools and other groups, i.e. sororities and fraternities. I know that many an old sorority girl has maintained her interest in the board. thanks.

Katie, what a great article. Thank you. And the illustrations certainly complemented the narrative. Who says learning can't be fun?

Although I'm not personally in favor of the corporal punishment of real children, I was punished as a child at home with hand and later strap and am absolutely fascinated by tails (oops...I mean tales) of the punishment of the bottoms of children and teens.

I think that paddling was at one time permitted at the schools I attended, but the practice was phased out. The rumor was that the kids had the opportunity to autograph the paddle after taking their licks.

Despite the fact that there was no opportunity, I nevertheless fantasized what it would have been like to have the paddle administered by the "vice" principal in his office, especially on my bare bottom. No wonder I have a library card at the LSF.

What a great article about paddles. There was paddling in the high school I attended, but I never did receive any cp in school. However, my sisters did and I remember them showing me their bruised bottoms - that made me even more of a "goody two shoes". I receive many hand spankings at home, but did get a few ping-pong paddlings in my teen years. You, however, have a great knowledge of paddles. Great job.

A good article, maybe could have gone into the holes vs no holes issue, but covered everything pretty well.
Agree that the paddle does seem pretty uniquely American, as also would seem to be the case with the switch.Although European and British material frequently mention the birch,which comes close, also being from a plant.
Another thing that might be pointed out is that the paddle is not just used or considered effective on bare skin. Also works wonders on tight blue jeans(like I have in a couple of my stories), or spandex .Paddling over tight pants is kind of its own subgenre of paddle discipline. And while panties down is a popular scenario, should be pointed out that there is no present day underwear that would offer any real protection.
My own favorite paddling images (and I ahve used them in stories), are as mentioned tight pants, cheeky short-shorts and swimsuits of any kind. As well as paddlings for not wearing panties, or flashing thongs.
Again, good work, Katie!

From one who received his fair share of swats with a wooden paddle in school your article here is correct. Well done.

JCP.

I remember this article in Wellred. I also see my comment in Feb., 2012. In our school, the strap was used by the acting female principle. I always heard humors about her using this strap but never knew anyone who was disciplined with this strap. Many years later, a former male student acknowledged that he was strapped by her. He was strapped in the bare bottom and got about 12 strokes. So, this strap was used, but know one new about it.

Great job, Katie. I know in my school it was used on a regular basis, and definitely worked. The person paddled, and those who heard it behaved much better. I know that boys usually got it worse for some reason, but it always seemed to affect the girls more. You would find they had a harder time sitting down after a few pops.
i differ with you in that i prefer a leather paddle to a wood one, but the size you mentioned is a good one.

Good job with an interesting subject. I grew up when there was no question about paddling in schools, although I only experienced CP at home. When I was in fourth grade, a smart-alecky boy was directed to the hallway and the teacher followed him out with a ruler. We listened to maybe half a dozen pops, and he returned in puzzled embarrassment. She had spanked his hands.

Thanks Katie. I too was raised in the South. I've always been a spanko however school paddlings are formed a definite impression. Ever since my fifth grade teacher bent me over the desk and paddled my butt I've been hooked on the paddle. My favorite fantasy is being a naughty school boy and being spanked by the teacher with her paddle. We have a number of paddles at home ranging from a small round oak paddle much like a brush to a large frat paddle. My wife uses them quite frequently on my bare rear either bent over like a school boy or laying flat over the bed. There is just nothing like the intense sting of a wooden paddle.

Really enjoyed your article, Katie. Thanks for re-posting. Now I'll have to go back and read all the last-year's articles.

Especially enjoyed the mention of the reaction to even seeing a paddle. I'm sure the way they "presented" the paddle in "Dead Poets Society" made the "afteraffects" scene more believable and the whole thing more erotic than it would have been if they'd kept us in the office for the whole paddling.

A very nice article. The paddle always held something of a fascination, both in my school days and my fraternity days to follow. Was never on the receiving end to any grat degree, but my lovely M and I now have a number of different examples, all of which are in great use.

A line toward the end of your article raises a question for me. You mention that the bureacratic procedures can prevent an act of violence by an angry teacher as you know by personal experience (I know I don't have it quoted correctly, but my brain is on summer vacation). So in your personal experience, I have to wonder if you were the teacher or the student???

I remember several years ago having a conversation with a man who told me that when he was in school, the teachers would use a rubber hose to punish students who misbehaved. He went to a private school, not a public school. This is the only time I've ever heard of a teacher using that particular implement. I have heard of cases where it was used by the police, as you mentioned.

Am I the only one to admit being on the receiving side of a school paddle? I can say a school paddle is as overwhelming as a caning. It was an interesting article. Personally, I think there is a place for paddling in school.

Bizarrely enough though I live in England I was on the receiving end of a school paddle once ( I was/am a goody goody).
The Head had two paddles, a decorative painted one and a smaller, plain wood one (mine) They were used very sparingly. Even at that time we thought there was something strange and alien about them, and since joining the online spanko community I now know why.

Just because a state allows cp doesn't mean it is used in every public school. Some school districts in Texas don't allow paddling.

My 7th grade teacher had a hickory paddle. It was homemade. it was about 18 inches long, It was narrower and thicker than a typical paddle, no more than 2 inches wide, and perhaps 5/8th of an inch thick. She often entertained the class with stories of using her paddle on students in the past. I only saw her paddle one student that year.

Growing up in the south, I saw, heard and even received paddling, both at school and home. I always hated the paddle and it's still not my favorite, but it is my husband's. Ouch!

I loved your article Katie and also loved the photos of those formidable looking paddles. They did not use the paddle in any school I ever attended nor did I get it at home. My dad did once threaten to "paddle me purple" if I ever used a certain word directed to my mother ever again. I never did and never felt said paddle but have often wondered what it would have been like.

In Ohio in the late 50's and 60's. paddling was the teachers' prerogative. It was the teachers choice as to whether it was to be conducted in the hall or in the classroom. Through fifth grade we all heard or witness many a paddling. No witness were required in elementary school. I do recall the teachers going to an adjacent classroom to have someone watch the class while they paddled. I recall several third grade in classroom paddlings of others of witness by the entire class. We all heard the paddle being used by teachers on a regular basis out in the hallways. I always wondered but never experienced a trip to the Principal's officeo for a paddling. Frankly, I always assumed but did not but never learned if that paddling was more severe in number and intensity than the teachers' swats. I never heard or witnessed one by a teacher that was more than three swats. I actually recall that teachers at least in first through third grade regularly armed themselves with paddles when on recess duty, prowling for misbehaving students who earned a taste of the paddle. Indeed, I remember several students including girls who when lining up to return post-recess to the classroom, were pulled out of line and given several swats for their lack of orderliness. Times have certainly changed in most states and certainly in Ohio.

I just read your article and enjoyed it and the comments. My mother was a teacher in a few high schools in rural Pennsylvania. I remember her telling me about the punishments in her last school, and I was surprised that paddling still went on (this was in the early 80s. She carpooled with the assistant principal, and he did all of the paddling after school. Since my mother was known to be sober and responsible and was a well-liked teacher, she was the official witness. She would tell the boys to take anything out of the back pockets of their pants and bend over the desk. Girls would be instructed to gather any loose material of dresses or skirts to the front so that the cloth was tight across their bottoms as they too bent over the desk. three was the usual number, but more were given on several occasions. She also said that since the miscreants had to stay after school and miss the school bus, the busy and angry parents would need to come and pick them up. She thought that the paddle smacks through clothing were likely to be nothing compared to the bare-bottom punishment they would most probably get at home. I was totally opposed to corporal punishment of minors, then and now, and told her so. She said that it was the norm in the community (mostly rural people of German descent), and that the students expected it and responded without resentment. I remember that one day after this talk, a young man in a military uniform stopped my mother on the street to thank her for "straightening me out and putting me on a good path." She told me after he left that she had supervised more than one paddling that he had gotten.

Nice article, Katie. "In praise of the paddle:" A spanking paddle serves another useful purpose within the geriatric community. My wife (age 77) is no longer physically capable of delivering an effective unaided spanking. But, with a long-handled 3/8 inch thick paddle, she is easily capable of delivering a painful spanking to a prone-positioned bare bottom (mine), with little risk of bruising. She spanks me twice a week (with roughly 70 strokes), leaving me with a sore bottom and a nice afterglow lasting several hours and sometimes into the next day. The paddle is one I made for her, specifically to use on me, and is about 20 inches in length with 4x5 inch blade and a comfortable handle.

Katie, a good friend who was a teacher and was raised by a teacher tells me she suspects the paddle was so popular in school for several reasons, it's effective over clothing, where a handspanking, belt or most other implements lose their effectiveness over clothing, it get results quickly, 5 licks is enough for the most recalcitrant student and makes quite an impression, it doesn't do the physical damage some implements can cause, maybe some bruising but that's about it, and it's consistent, the same person can give the same paddling over and over and the results are roughly the same each time.

The wooden paddle is by far the best weapon of choice, and it's origins are believed by many to be French. The Martinet is a later French implement probably inspired by penitential church floggings.

I grew up in Texas starting First Grade in the mid 1960's. The paddle was still very much in use then.It figures prominently in my stores as that's the punishment I am most familiar with as I did find myself bent over for a teacher or principal from time to time. The only time it was done purposely in view of other students was in shop class and PE in Jr. High School. Otherwise, most often a teacher would take the miscreant to the hall and paddle them right outside the classroom. Nothing quieted a classroom down faster than a teacher taking a student out to the hall with their paddle. we wanted to hear everything that happened. A friend that is a former teacher from that era tells me th epaddle was used as it was consistent, and it would get results through clothing. Plus, seeing a teacher or principal with a paddle will strike fear into your heart, especially if you are the intended target.