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A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly.
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United States: TV news report (June 2014) on the acquittal on assault charges of a school principal in Mississippi who had paddled three boys. Hong Kong: Demonstration in the prison museum of the A-frame and cane formerly used for judicial CP. Japan: thought to be from the same school, but possibly more recent, another picture of a student being caned with a kendo sword I realized all this over the course of a few “lashes” and then…I did my best acting and carried on like she was killing me with the thing, all the while almost gleeful inside that she was using “the belt” instead of her sandal. Singapore: secondary school boy being caned on stage in front of whole school, c.2005 (also video clip)United States: Two news clips (2008) about a Texas judge who offered parents the option of paddling their youngsters in his courtroom. United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996). United States: Interview with a Memphis teacher, May 2007, who says that the abolition of corporal punishment has failed.
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Germany: classroom caning of elementary schoolboy, 1960s (possibly a scene from a film, but might be real) UK: Smith, Mrs Marjorie, schoolmistress who spanked senior girls with headmaster J.L. Guise (q.v.), 1964United States?: posed picture of small boy bending over to be paddled with a table-tennis bat, date unknown USA: Anderson, Ted, basketball coach removed from post for paddling players in 2004, Tennessee, seen in 2008