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A new report notes that paddling numbers are high in Alabama. A local TV report (Aug 2009) finds differing opinions, and interviews a school superintendent who says many parents support CP. and (8) Two reports about a mass march on the archdiocese in the ongoing attempt to restore paddling at St Augustine High in New Orleans.
Five clips from Texas, four of them covering a controversy about male administrators spanking girls, the other from a district where paddling is alive and well and everybody is happy.Madge didn’t bother to grab my wrist or push my hand out of the way when it tried to intervene, she just moved her target out of reach down my thighs. If possible, those spanks hurt even more. Thailand: A mass caning at a boys' boarding school, which provoked a media storm locally. With news item (2010). United States: Interview with a Memphis teacher, May 2007, who says that the abolition of corporal punishment has failed.
A Texas high-school principal is suspended over allegations that he paddled a student too hard. Bruises are seen.
Real Life Discipline
A principal in another part of Missouri is found to have done no wrong in administering a paddling about which the student's mother complained. United States: TV news report from April 2011 on a Missouri school district where the paddle (pictured) is in regular use. Hong Kong: Demonstration in the prison museum of the A-frame and cane formerly used for judicial CP.