>This just happens to be from my hometown newspaper in Portage, WI:
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>http://portagedailyregister.com/news/49a11bd6-a139-11dd-840c-001cc4c03286.htmlI remember a paddle in the principal's office in my elementary school when I was a kid. Don't know if it ever got used, but I know they always threatened to.
I have one comment on this though ... the bruising. Some people bruise very easily ... I'm one of them. I'm forever wondering where the heck did that bruise come from? I get them without ever remembering whacking into anything ... although I must have, but obviously not even hard enough to remember doing it.
Two whacks on the butt doesn't sound all that bad to me. My mom used to whack us on the hand with a hair brush ... nobody screamed "child abuse" in those days. I turned out ok despite the "abuse", as did the rest of my sisters.
~~Bonnie
