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joevol33 said:
For the record! I was a great student, as far as grades, I just stayed in trouble, a lot 🤣. I probably still hold the detention record, and probably the only student past 1990 that was threatened with a paddle on several occasions 👀
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It would be awkward to paddle a student who was older than the administrator doing the paddling.
I understand why you never got paddled.
Plus, there'd be a temptation to turn the paddle sideways and play Whack a Mole.
 
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GordonC said:
It would be awkward to paddle a student who was older than the administrator doing the paddling.
I understand why you never got paddled.
Plus, there'd be a temptation to turn the paddle sideways and play Whack a Mole.
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I got on the bad list my second day of high school. Coming from "the hollar", I didn't know anything about there being the jokes of freshman orientation from older kids. I ended up fighting a guy over a joke, and that started my criminal career 🤣
 
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joevol33 said:
For the record! I was a great student, as far as grades, I just stayed in trouble, a lot 🤣. I probably still hold the detention record, and probably the only student past 1990 that was threatened with a paddle on several occasions 👀
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My first paddling was in first grade and my last was senior year. There were many in between.

I am certain I hold the record for most paddlings in the first grade, think I averaged one a week.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
My first paddling was in first grade and my last was senior year. There were many in between.

I am certain I hold the record for most paddlings in the first grade, think I averaged one a week.
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What a sucky school practice. So, so bad.

And before the usual posts about mollycoddling, from the usual suspects, I told the Bonny Kate principal (Pat Robinette, may he rest in well-deserved peace) that if any of my kids ever did anything that the school considered paddle-worthy, please let me know. If I agreed, they’d get much worse at home than whatever might happen in the principal’s office. And even if I didn’t, there would be some serious tough-love conversations going on.

But no way in HELL was I going to allow anyone else to lay hands on my kids.

I’m sorry this happened to you. Obviously it did not create the desired result (conformity), so good for you for fighting the good fight, but sorry for your poor fanny!
 
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VolNExile said:
What a sucky school practice. So, so bad.

And before the usual posts about mollycoddling, from the usual suspects, I told the Bonny Kate principal (Pat Robinette, may he rest in well-deserved peace) that if any of my kids ever did anything that the school considered paddle-worthy, please let me know. If I agreed, they’d get much worse at home than whatever might happen in the principal’s office. And even if I didn’t, there would be some serious tough-love conversations going on.

But no way in HELL was I going to allow anyone else to lay hands on my kids.

I’m sorry this happened to you. Obviously it did not create the desired result (conformity), so good for you for fighting the good fight, but sorry for your poor fanny!
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It was barbaric, but I didn’t think so at the time. It is insane that schools were able to do this. Good ole COC private school, hellfire and brimstone.

One of them was due to a 4th grade assignment to write an ‘I wish’ poem. My wish had to do with Farrah Fawcett not wearing clothes.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
It was barbaric, but I didn’t think so at the time. It is insane that schools were able to do this. Good ole COC private school, hellfire and brimstone.

One of them was due to a 4th grade assignment to write an ‘I wish’ poem. My wish had to do with Farrah Fawcett not wearing clothes.
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Did they not realize that obviously you were a Precocious Child?!? 😲😂
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
It was barbaric, but I didn’t think so at the time. It is insane that schools were able to do this. Good ole COC private school, hellfire and brimstone.

One of them was due to a 4th grade assignment to write an ‘I wish’ poem. My wish had to do with Farrah Fawcett not wearing clothes.
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You didn’t wish to know the identity of the cover model for National Lampoon’s Pubescence issue?
 
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IMG_20230223_202451172.jpgmiddle brat finished her senior year of swim with a bang. She lettered again, got scholar athlete, and the coaches trophy. It's been an awesome time watching her since she came home in the 6th grade wanting to join the swim team. Little bit lettered as a freshman, super proud of both of them.
 
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joevol33 said:
View attachment 537870middle brat finished her senior year of swim with a bang. She lettered again, got scholar athlete, and the coaches trophy. It's been an awesome time watching her since she came home in the 6th grade wanting to join the swim team. Little bit lettered as a freshman, super proud of both of them.
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That is so Great, and I know Joe that you and Tiffany are so proud of them....
 
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joevol33 said:
View attachment 537870middle brat finished her senior year of swim with a bang. She lettered again, got scholar athlete, and the coaches trophy. It's been an awesome time watching her since she came home in the 6th grade wanting to join the swim team. Little bit lettered as a freshman, super proud of both of them.
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Got to buy the little one a Letter Jacket now
 
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VolNExile said:
What a sucky school practice. So, so bad.

And before the usual posts about mollycoddling, from the usual suspects, I told the Bonny Kate principal (Pat Robinette, may he rest in well-deserved peace) that if any of my kids ever did anything that the school considered paddle-worthy, please let me know. If I agreed, they’d get much worse at home than whatever might happen in the principal’s office. And even if I didn’t, there would be some serious tough-love conversations going on.

But no way in HELL was I going to allow anyone else to lay hands on my kids.

I’m sorry this happened to you. Obviously it did not create the desired result (conformity), so good for you for fighting the good fight, but sorry for your poor fanny!
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Sounds like my parents. They weren't against paddlings, they were against strangers paddling their kids. If I had done something deserving of a paddling (I never did at school), they'd have allowed the principal to hold a school assembly to watch on of them paddle me. It just wasn't going to be someone other than one of my parents.
 
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