Thirty-three swats with a wooden paddle for violating the dress code by wearing cuffed pants (a possible hiding place for cigarettes) in junior high. Being forced to bend over, naked, in front of ...

Let's just say we've come a long way from the days in the early 1970s, when a junior high coach would occasionally stand at our locker room doorway, paddle in hand, half-jokingly, half-painfully ...

Raleigh Johnson was dreading fifth period. He knew what was coming. Because of a failing grade in his Spanish class, Johnson readied himself to be on the receiving end of two swats from a nearly ...

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 ...

Gilbert Leal, who (… fondly?) remembers getting swats back at W.H. Gaston Middle School back in the day, wants to bring the paddle back to Dallas Independent School District, just like they’ve done ...