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United States: Yet another TV news report (2006) featuring a mother unhappy about her son's paddling at school, even though she had given permission for it. This story is M/m, - a boy is switched by his father for persistent misbehavior and obstruction during their vacation.
Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (artist's impression in colour) In California, a man punishing his son in his garden attracts the attention of prying neighbors. TV report (2012). United States: TV news report on school CP, June 2011: Developments in the continuing dispute over paddling at St Augustine High School, New Orleans. United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996). minute news report from Florida (2007) about a man who is in trouble for spanking his 8-year-old son with a belt. Includes interview with the man and his lawyer.Canada: prisoners in yard after riot, shortly before ringleaders flogged, 1952 (poor-quality photo) A brief silent glimpse of an official caning in front of a crowd of thousands under the Zia regime, c.1980. United States, paddle used by upperclassmen at The Citadel, military academy, for punishing freshmen UK: Wildman, Eric, ambushed at "progressive" school and beaten with one of his own canes, several pictures of the fracas, 1948
Canada: Benditt, Aaron, the "Ryerson Spanker", jailed for illicitly spanking teen boys, 2001 (picture from poor-quality photocopy)The messages often ask if I’m still writing new stories. The short answer is yes. But the long answer is more complicated, so rather than trying to type it out individually a dozen or more times (a task that takes so much mental energy I’ve already put off responding to anyone for much longer than I should), I wanted to post it here. United States: TV news report (Mar 2014): A newly created school district in Tennessee decides to introduce corporal punishment. USA: Martin, James, police chief in Ohio who ran juvenile diversion program involving paddlings, 2004
News report, 2012: A shopkeeper in Quebec foils a would-be young robber and spanks his bare bottom. Jamaica: scenes from filmed reconstruction of prison-yard judicial flogging with tamarind switch, 1960s United Kingdom: photograph of student bending over for a rulering at front of class, but it's all in fun (I think), boys' secondary school, London, 1970United States: paddle swat being delivered to unseen Louisiana school student, c.2006 (also video clip) A rare piece of historic actuality: four-minute extract from a 1978 TV documentary showing a high-school punishment session in Pennsylvania.
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