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Caught on camera at a public swimming pool in present-day Iran, punishment is administered with a flipper by the swim coach. Graphic footage of a different Malaysian judicial caning. Full-length version of a 10-stroke caning for which we previously had only an "edited highlights" version.
This is something I really want to emphasise. Although for those who received it, classroom corporal punishment seemed dreadful and terrible at the time, the reality is that most teachers I know were quite merciful when it came to how hard they belted the kids.Later in the day they were working on rehearsals for a drama production and my colleague just stood there watching like she was supposed to when the sub asked her why she wasn’t in her costume and just standing around. She again tried to explain who she was, but the sub cut her off and told her to put on costume on now and quit wasting time or she was going to spank her and put it on her herself. She grabbed her arm, gave her swat, and told her to scoot. My colleague went into the room, but didn’t know what to do, she said she was very confused. She finally opened the door to confront the sub, but the sub marched in, grabbed her by the arm and sat down on a nearby table and pulled my colleague over her knee and started to spank her and give her this lecture about how she came to school late, has been nothing but trouble all day, and now won’t change clothes and she was tired of it and was going to teach her an old fashion lesson. After her spanking which she said was only about 10 swats, the sub started to pull her dress over her head. Feeling confused and defeated, she didn’t put up a fight. The sub took off her dress, took off her bra and made a comment that no 25 year old has breasts like this and that there is no point to lie to adults about her age that one day she’ll mature but she must learn to respect her elders, and held the leotard type costume for her to step into and she zipped her up. She gave her another swat and sent her outside with the other students to practice. Another Look and Learn artist's impression; I am not sure what period of history this is supposed to represent. Once again, we have the nonsense of the birch shown as being applied over trousers, giving a quite false impression.
In a dormitory in Romania, serious bare-bottom pain for a young man being initiated into a sports team. Mr McTaggart demonstrated all this with a single stroke to the male student’s hand. The latter grimaced a bit as the belt hit him but otherwise didn’t say anything. United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an (unsuccessful) attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee. TV news item from Jan 2008 about the paddling of a student. His mother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained when it left marks on his rear. An investigation found there had been no abuse or wrongdoing on the part of the school.
School CP
TV news report (in Korean) shows students presenting their teachers with gifts of punishment canes, sent by their parents to help keep them in line. This picture of punishment with the kendo sword is from the same establishment as that illustrated in this magazine article and this one as well as this picture. Those are all from the 1970s; we don't know whether this one is from the same era or a bit more recent, but it is known that the school closed quite a while ago when Mr Watanabe
The US flag notwithstanding, this is claimed to be a martial-arts lesson in Japan. We do not know whether this is a "real" punishment, or an initiation ceremony, or just a picture posed for fun. News report, March 2018: Interview with student who agreed to accept posterial CP from his Korean martial-arts instructor. The youth's father, who supported the punishment, also speaks. Brief film of a another public caning of that era, and of the offender being carried away afterwards. A very few teachers of my acquaintance told me they had been required to witness a belting given by another teacher before being allowed to ‘go solo’, as it were.Here we seem to be in a more ordinary kind of school than the above, but the use of a kendo sword is the same. However, the "hands on the wall" method is being used instead of the "bending over" position. The picture looks as if it may be more recent than those we know to be from Mr Watanabe's establishment. Formal CP seems to be very rare in ordinary schools in Japan these days, having been outlawed for more than 60 years, and it may be that this is a posed picture rather than "the real thing". A young boy is enthusiastically spanked by, presumably, his father. Possibly USA in the 1960s, to judge from the boy's clothes. This looks as if it could be a still from a film. Secondary boys in uniform are lined up at a college in Rawalpindi to receive one stroke of the cane each. Two youths paddled by, allegedly, their father. UPDATE: It now appears that this clip is from South Africa, not the United States. Extra text added.
However, you must remember that in Scotland at least, those same teachers would have grown up seeing the belt administered in class pretty frequently, so I guess they just copied what they had witnessed (or indeed received) as children. Clip shows tawse being made, staged shots of tawse in use, report on implications of Campbell and Cosans judgment for CP in UK schools. Cover of an Indonesian book for parents on how to punish their kids. The scene illustrated looks peculiarly draconian and formalised for parental CP, and indeed I'm told the text does not support the hard line implied by the cover but is actually rather "modern Western-style" in tone, with spanking somewhat frowned upon. This came with a caption reading "Denver reform school scandal, straps used in flogging, 1941". I don't know what scandal is alluded to here -- can anyone throw any light on this? United States: TV news report, Jan 2012: A mother complains about school paddling of her son, even though she had given permission for it.TV crew visits a school district in North Carolina with the most paddlings in the state, but also one of the lowest levels of violent incidents. A senior at Valley View High School in Arkansas getting posterial discipline from Dean Huggins's paddle in c.2007, two weeks before graduation. Or so he says. At any rate it is a fair demonstration of the "hands on the desk" position.