Today’s students, teachers, and administrators would be amazed if they were transported back to Inland Empire schools in the good old days. Even as late as the 1950s, discipline often was applied ...

“They hit you with wooden paddles?” asked the unbelieving teenager ... And if our parents found out that we’d been paddled, we--not the teachers--were likely to face their wrath.

And a few did--accusing me of sentimentalizing abuse by teachers when I lamented the ... when infractions brought swats with wooden paddles. “Reading your column today made me so mad I can ...

At “big school,” the wooden paddle is larger — the employee handbook calls for it to be up to thirty inches long, half an inch thick, and from two to three inches wide — and the teachers sometimes ...

A town will reintroduce corporal punishment in its schools following discussions between teachers ... students face being struck with a wooden paddle under new proposals, which will also see ...

This article was published 23/03/2022 (1171 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. In 2019, artist, wood-, metal-, and leather-worker, historian, and sort-of-retired vagabond ...

As a young teacher, Tara Ebersole trembled whenever she reached for the flat wooden paddle she was supposed to use to discipline students in her junior high school classroom in east Tennessee.

we need to focus on reviewing data with our teachers and staff, and listen to their ideas on best practices to address discipline." At a Tuesday board meeting, Makoski held up a wooden paddle and ...