United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1850 Of course, my mother also saw this happen. I gather she didn’t approve of it but there was little she could do. Actually, my mother and aunt didn’t get along very well and I think that is why we moved when we did. USA: Kouchalakos, Peter, junior high school principal in Florida, pictured with autographed paddles, 1976

A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly. A Texas ranger unsuccessfully tries to prevent a girl from following him by whipping her with a switch. [1] Malaysia: Phua Seng Tiong, award-winning school principal, advocates caning but says the student must agree to it, 2006 United States: TV news report (Mar 2014): A newly created school district in Tennessee decides to introduce corporal punishment.UK: Williamson, Phil, headmaster of Christian school, fighting court case to overturn ban on corporal punishment, 2001 Singapore: secondary school boy being caned on stage in front of whole school, c.2005 (also video clip) Malaysia: caning of criminal in prison, may be a posed reconstruction but could well be real, c.1980s (for the real thing on film, see video clips) This all changed when I was 13. Aunt Pam was a Christian fundamentalist, and in my teens I’d sometimes stay weekends or for a time in school holidays at her lovely house in Amersham, and she became a kind of tutor to me too.

United States, Washington State school paddle labelled "The Educator" hanging in former principal's garage

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United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of adult naval rating with a cat-o'-nine-tails on board ship, c.1850 Bahamas: Deveux, Kenneth, teacher who allegedly gave 12-year-old schoolboy 70 strokes of the cane, 1999 Papua New Guinea (at the time just New Guinea): floggings of German civilians by Australian troops at Rabaul, 1914

Ep. 2: Shows a series of brutal whippings when it is suspected that the slaves of a neighbouring plantation are involved in assisting an escape.Gaspersohn, Shelly, senior student paddled at US high school in 1981, shown at age 20 giving evidence with her mother to Senate hearing in 1984 I was amazed. I had been spanked by my parents and my aunt before, but those spankings were always done in private. I had never seen or imagined a grown-up giving a child an over-the-knee spanking in a public setting like that. Although there was no-one else using the playground at the time, I’m sure that people driving by on the road must have noticed. TV news report (in Korean) shows students presenting their teachers with gifts of punishment canes, sent by their parents to help keep them in line. United States: child receiving over-the-knee paddling with "the board of education", presumably a posed picture, possibly c.1900