>>>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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>There was a disussion in 'The Times' here recently about corporal punishment in schools. One correspondent wrote in the say that it certainly worked for him - he hadn't run down a corridor in years!

My primary school was run by Nuns. I remember being beaten by one of them with a wooden yardstick. Some people pay for that sort of thing.

Still I believe beating children should like bear baiting and public executions be a thing of the past.