A visitor once described London as a great party you’re not invited to, full of secret, niche things down side-alleys that you’d never know about if you didn’t know someone who knows someone. Corporal punishment policy, practice, procedure, regulation, and world, judicial and parental CP influences, by Harold A. Trisha had been warned about talking during Assembly the previous week, only her second week at the school.

United States: Interview with a Memphis teacher, May 2007, who says that the abolition of corporal punishment has failed. They, their classmates, and even some of the staff are regularly on the receiving end of spankings from implements ranging from the hand to the Dragon cane and even the birch. Type it into your E-mail program, replacing (AT) with the usual symbol, (DOT) with a dot, and close up the spaces.United States: Two news clips (2008) about a Texas judge who offered parents the option of paddling their youngsters in his courtroom. An outlaw sentenced to 100 lashes is tied to a post and severely flogged in this Australian western.

Segment from a daytime TV chat show discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools. At a Los Angeles high school in 1968, two male students receive a classroom paddling for speaking Spanish. United States: PBS TV interview (2011) (6 minutes) with Peter Moskos, who discusses his book advocating flogging as an optional replacement for imprisonment in certain cases. United States: TV news report (June 2013) about a proposal to reintroduce the punishment paddle in a Texas school district that had abolished it five years previously. The HM had left for a conference immediately after Assembly, so it was to his deputy that Trisha was told to report after lunch.

Many of my real fantasies, the ones I find in my head when I’m disturbed or stressed, are dark and non-consensual punishment scenes. A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly. New Zealand: TV news item (2007) about a Christian school that tried to evade the ban on corporal punishment by having parents come to the school to administer a paddling.