Recollections of a Spanked Schoolboy

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While corporal punishment remains legal in 19 states, there have been efforts in some of those states to ban the practice. In May of 2021, Louisiana considered such a bill. Students of St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, gathered to demonstrate in support of retaining the school's policy of frequent use of hard paddlings, 2011 (also video clips) In another Texas district, a paddled boy's mother complains about bruises on her son's bottom. The boy describes his punishment. United States: TV news report (June 2013) about a proposal to reintroduce the punishment paddle in a Texas school district that had abolished it five years previously.

Clip shows tawse being made, staged shots of tawse in use, report on implications of Campbell and Cosans judgment for CP in UK schools. United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an (unsuccessful) attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee. Karen took out the envelope containing the slip….the slip…the white crispy slip, the DETENTION SLIP, and walked gingerly by the stairs and into the kitchen. “Hello Mum. I got this today.” USA: Weitensteiner, Rev. Joe, leader of boys' ranch in Washington State, pictured in 2002, "legendary in his use of the discipline paddle" over 45 years

For example, rather than being paddled, students who damage school property might discuss their behavior with adults and other students involved and then contribute to repairing the property. In a dormitory in Romania, serious bare-bottom pain for a young man being initiated into a sports team. United States (probably): man paddles small boy, jocular posed picture artificially coloured, possibly c.1900 Thailand: Jocular punishment in which schoolboys are made to cane each other in front of their class. However, these efforts have not been able to get much traction. Louisiana’s bill failed to pass in the House, with critics pointing to a preference for local school districts to make the decision. In fact, the last state ban occurred in 2011, when New Mexico outlawed the practice.

Germany: classroom caning of elementary schoolboy, 1960s (possibly a scene from a film, but might be real) Jersey: 53 years after being birched as a teenage criminal, an old man is interviewed about it. We also see the contraption used, still in storage after lying idle for 40 years. A North Carolina school district abolishes corporal punishment, though many local parents would have wished it kept.United States: high-school student in North Carolina receiving birthday spanking in class, 2014 (also video clip) Long, Cole, Florida high school senior, paddled "plenty of times", approves of corporal punishment, pictured with principal, 2012 UK: Court Lees Approved School, subject of official inquiry into excessive corporal punishment of boys, 1967