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To: bentway who wrote (634573)	11/4/2011 3:46:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578501

Parents paddling their kids is not an uncommon practice anywhere....... I believe all the schools in the NE have a ban on it and in some cases, a teacher even touching a child is risky for the teacher. I too grew up going to school when corporal punishment was acceptable and common...I shouldn't take pride in it but I received far more than my share of it....in retrospect I did it the old fashioned way, I earned it. I had one teacher who would tell you to "assume the angle" in preparation for getting a paddle stroke or two from a fellow student silently picked out of the class while you had your palms on the blackboard and your legs spread. I had the "distinction" of being the only student one particular teacher ever struck, and strike he did....beat the hell out of me right at my desk...he was one of the football coaches and a really nice guy.. I don't recall my parents ever striking me except for the one time my father chased me up the street and hitting my legs with a small branch.....he couldn't catch me... I never struck our kids(sorry, each got one hit on the back of the head) but got effective results with the threat of it, especially pulling off my belt and snapping it... The way the judges story sounds, he had his own wife terrified and she took her own turn whacking the kid...left him some time after...