Has anyone ever been paddled at school?

Question

I did not go to kindergarten. On my 1st day of 1st grade the principal, Mrs. Heath had an assembly which was quite loud. I did not hear her say no playing on the schoolground equipment until you went home and came back. I lived across the street from the school so as I left to walk home I slid down the slide. The next morning I got called to her office and she paddled me. I was tramatized at the time! How about you?

traumatized-(senior moment.)

Buttercup--ouch! I've never heard of that before. Poor thing:(

Shortstuff, I loved that. You were quite spunky!

Manniz, I got belt spankings too but they were always at home.

KOHA I never said it was wrong to spank. I spanked my children and they spank theirs. It teaches respect for authority.
But come on ! 1st grader, 2nd day of school just to make a point was wrong.

I am so astonished at the level of cruelty some of you had to indure. At my school it was always in the principal's office, leaning over the desk and a few whacks with a paddle. yes, it's traumatizing when you are a child who never gets in trouble only to find your self on the receiving end of a ruler or head hit agaisnt the chalk board or slapped.( I can't believe this).
I guess I was naive up until this moment. Even though I got a paddling that I didn't deserve I always felt that it should not have been taken out of school but now I have changed my mind.
This is going to be a very hard choice as I believe all of you deserve best answer for what you've gone through. And those of us who are tender hearted and was innocent do carry it with us forever.

endure.( I promise I made good grades:)

My first grade year was 1961 in Missouri.

I changed my name back to gabeymac

From Pollyanna

Answer 1

In seventh grade we had a substitute teacher for the day that had trouble controlling the class. I was being a good girl and sitting at my desk saying nothing, when I got poked from behind by one of the talkers. I turned around to glare at him, but didn't say anything. When I turned back the teacher accused me of having talked and "disrupted" the whole class. I told her that I hadn't spoken. She called me a liar, and told me to shut up, and dragged me down to the principals office by my ear. (I was the only one from the class to be punished, and almost the only one who HADN'T deserved it!)

The principal and the teacher huddled and decided that I would be punished by a ruler smacked across my palms. I was told to stand with my hands out in front of me. And when the principal brought that ruler down the first time, I just HAD to move my hands out of the way! For that I got held by both upper arms and shaken and yelled at. Of course, I was bawling my eyes out by then. And had been slapped across the mouth by the teacher for lying, when I tried to protest that I HADN'T been talking.

The principal finally threatened that I would be expelled from school if I didn't stand there and take my punishment like a good girl. Most of all I didn't want my mother to be disappointed in me, so I stood there and took their "punishment"--two slaps really hard (the principal was up on his toes to get a good forceful swing with that ruler) across my palms. I couldn't even close my fingers afterwards.

When I was told to go back to my class, I walked out of the school and straight home instead. I was crying so hard that I couldn't even see, but I made it home to my mother. When she finally got the story out of me, she treated my hands with ice packs (the inside of my palms were swollen to the size of half-tennis balls by then) and put me to bed--then went marching off to the school.

I have no idea what was said, but that substitute teacher never worked in our school again. And that was the very last time any child had to undergo "punishment" beatings in our school.

As an addendum, when my regular teacher came back to the class, he found out what had happened to me, and went immediately to the principal telling HIM that I was one of his very best students, and that I NEVER lied. He got so vocal (he was a short little Greek man, but passionate in defense of us) that we heard exactly what he said in our classroom. And he further went on to say that HE would do any disciplining required of HIS students and that NO ONE ELSE had the right to even THINK of punishing us, as they didn't know us.

And when he came back into the class he apologized to me personally for not being there to protect me and having let me down. AND he made all the children (who volunteered themselves) who had actually been responsible for disrupting the class get up and apologize to me personally.

Traumatizing, you betcha. So much so that I even cry now as I remember it all. But holding good memories as well, in that I learned exactly HOW GOOD a good teacher could be.

And Mr. Papandopoulos WAS the BEST!

Answer 2

When I was in the first grade, I was in the rest room at school. Some rowdy older boys were making a lot of racket, jumping around and generally raising cane in there. All the teachers in our school were females as was the principal so the boys felt pretty safe in their rowdiness. Suddenly, Mrs. Plenicky, the principal came storming into the rest room and I can tell you there was a scramble among those of us who were doing what you are supposed to be doing in a rest room. A few of the noise makers somehow got away through the outdoor exit. I was near it but entirely too dumb and law abiding to make a run for it. Besides, I wasn't doing anything bad so had nothing to fear.

Wrong!

Mrs. Plenicky lined all of us up in the hall and gave each of us a couple swats with a paddle. I was innocent. I was aghast.

This, then, was the very first lesson I got of many others that convinced me that life is not always fair. I have since forgiven Mrs. Plenicky because she treated me nicely on many other occasions but the incident still irks me when I think about it.

Answer 3

Third grade teacher took me into the hall and paddled me. All the kids walking in the hall saw it. I didn't and don't even know why she did it. I hated her for that and many other reasons.
Teachers were not allowed to touch my kids at school. I am the only one who did that and that was a last resort. I did not paddle though. MY hand was enough if at all. One day my oldest son came home and told me that the teacher had slapped the hands of a little girl with a ruler. I went the next day and told her very kindly that she was never to do anything like that to my kids. If she had a problem let me know. I nipped it in the bud.

Answer 4

Sure many times, in grade school we were made to "run the gauntlet" if we mis-behaved. All of the students in the class were given paddles and the offender had to run though the gauntlet that the teacher set up. Actually it was more for show then anything else.

I was, however, slapped in the face in the fifth grade by a lady teacher. And when she called my mother, my mother slapped me too when I got home. I hardly ever called a woman a B*tch after that.

Answer 5

I watched kids get paddled, back when I went. I never did. Got thumped, hard, along my spine, once, for talkng in class.

My mother had her knuckles rapped with a ruler, and got sat behind the piano, nearly every day in kindergarten. Teacher claimed she didn't do what she was told.
Of course she didn't. Only Finn was spoken in her home. She didn't know what the teacher wanted her to do. Even when she was elderly, Mom still had not forgiven that mean teacher.

Answer 6

Yes, and like you, it traumatized me as well.

The reason? I forgot my homework and she had told us that if we did not have the assignment, we would face punishment. I had completed the assignment and thought I had it folded, in between the pages of my book.

When I opened my book to get it out...my heart went crazy! The next thing i knew, I was in the hall and I was asked to bend over and grab my ankles. I did and she about brought me off the floor with that wooden paddle!

I have never forgotten the humilitation of having to face my classmates! She also gave me an F!

Answer 7

I bet you were traumatized because you still remember it. She should have sent a note home to your mom, explaining the playground rules or just given you a verbal warning. I was never paddled in school but when I was in the first grade my teacher punished me for chewing gum in class, so she made me stick the gum on my "nose" & she made me sit under her desk for an hour. The front of the desk was open & I remember seeing the kids in my class looking at me & laughing. I couldn't take it anymore, I was so humiliated, so I took my finger & poked her big toe many times (she had open toed shoes on) & she got mad & let me go back to my seat.

Answer 8

I was paddled more than once. Once because I laughed at this kid for making a blah blah noise and letting the tooth paste fall out of his mouth. He had C.P. and the teacher thought I was making fun of him but he was really acting silly and he wanted me to laugh. Another time we at recess and the weather must have been bad because we were inside in the gym. I was mad at a friend of mine and I threw a medicine ball at her I swear I meant to throw the ball past her but she swerved to the left and the ball hit her right in the middle of the back and knocked her over. I didn't care about the paddling I deserved it. I was so worried about my friend. I cried and cried and told her over and over how sorry I was. I got paddled again after I got home. But my Mom called her Mom and said I was so worried could I talk to Patty? Bless her heart she had been worried about me getting a paddling.

Answer 9

I was paddled quite regularly. If My Dad found out about it I got another one at home. By J. High I was so traumatized that I had a healthy respect for law and order. Go figure!!

Answer 10

Yes, and it wasn't my fault -- well, not completely.

I was in third grade and we were tossing a ball of waxed paper around the lunch table. It soared over to the teachers' table.

I was kept in at recess and paddled, but I was the only one punished.

I'm 67 years old, and I've always resented that. (I know. It's time to get over it.)

BTW, My mother didn't spank us (We tightened our butts and she broke veins in her hands when she tried). No. We had to go outside and select the switch.

Answer 11

2nd grade teacher would whack us with a ruler--3 grade teacher would cry and leave the room. 4 grade teacher would draw a circle on the black board and make you stick your nose in it --usually about high enough that you had to stand on your toes.
5 grade teacher was also the principal and he liked me so he would take me in the 'cloak' room and whack his leg with the ping pong paddle and tell me to go sit down and look hurt. 6th grade teacher had huge wooden paddles with holes in them, she used to wail the tar out of the boys--all she ever did to me was threaten. Guess the worst was the ruler whacker. Our 7th grade teacher would walk up behind you and whack you in the head--with his knuckle he called it knuckle salad.