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Subject: Re: School Paddlings


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Alfred22 for Brenda
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Date Posted: 06:29:16 04/11/26 Sat
In reply to: Brenda 's message, "Re: School Paddlings" on 05:44:37 04/11/26 Sat

Your account is most interesting and at almost all schools that did paddle there were very strict rules about how it was done. Licks were limited and the paddles were usually without holes. I kind of accidentally dodged ever getting it in the sense that I attended schools that paddled before I got there and later after I was no longer there. So, I have no direct or "hands-on" knowledge.

I believe that paddling was not restricted to boys but boys got it the most. Girls tended to get it for repeated rule infractions like tardies. Boys got the paddle harder, I suspect and more often for fighting. Everyone who got five or more licks cried, had watery eyes, and had trouble not rubbing and a lot of discomfort if they had to sit on a hard desk seat. Everyone watched the recently paddled one as he or she sat down very gingerly. Or so it was said.

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Brenda (to Alfred22)
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Date Posted: 06:46:17 04/11/26 Sat

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you go to school and when did you graduate?

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Alfred22
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Date Posted: 07:22:12 04/11/26 Sat

Long ago I went to school and I started in private school, having been born in the wrong month for public 1st grade. So, Brenda I am your elder and I expect and demand respect from you!

The first three grades were in Florida and the last nine north of Florida but not too far north. We had a cheer song for big games where we asked Are you from Dixie and named a few southern states and then excepted the opposing team's town or school name. I always answered YES since my mother was from Dixie and well below the Mason Dixson Line.

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