>>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.html
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>I 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>~~Bonnie

So if you did something that annoyed me it'd be ok to give you a (non bruising) slap.