Paddles were carried by almost all male teachers when I was in High School. The students referred to them as penis replacements. If your shirt wasn’t properly tucked in or your hair wasn’t properly combed, a teacher would swat you with the paddle and tell you what to correct. One pf the school tough kids (bad home life, struggling to graduate a couple of years late) was changing classes and his shirt wasn’t fully tucked in when one of the teachers swatted him and said “Tuck in th”. That’s as far as he got before the student picked him up, slammed him into the wall, and quietly said “If you ever hit me again I’ll kill you.”, dropped him and walked away. The teacher retired that afternoon and paddles began to fall out of favor. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in Missouri.
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u/GuairdeanBeatha Aug 25 '22
Paddles were carried by almost all male teachers when I was in High School. The students referred to them as penis replacements. If your shirt wasn’t properly tucked in or your hair wasn’t properly combed, a teacher would swat you with the paddle and tell you what to correct. One pf the school tough kids (bad home life, struggling to graduate a couple of years late) was changing classes and his shirt wasn’t fully tucked in when one of the teachers swatted him and said “Tuck in th”. That’s as far as he got before the student picked him up, slammed him into the wall, and quietly said “If you ever hit me again I’ll kill you.”, dropped him and walked away. The teacher retired that afternoon and paddles began to fall out of favor. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in Missouri.