A recent news report from one of the local TV stations interviewed a Grandmother/Mother of a child that was paddled in school and ended up with a bruise on his butt. The parents were enraged because they did not give approval to administer corporal punishment. A debate ensued on Facebook about school discipline. Most had found the teacher guilty without hearing the teacher's side of the story.
All of the discussion reminded me of a story my late Mother told me. She was a math teacher at a junior high school when a female student in another class misbehaved. The student was sent to the assistant principle's office and was thus given the option of taking a paddlin' or reporting to detention after school. The girl did not show up for detention that afternoon.
The next morning the girl and her father showed up at the Assistant Principles office. The father stated that he did not want his daughter being whipped and that she need to come home right after school as she had chores to do. The father said he understood that his daughter had been bad and he was there to take the "licks" for her. The assistant said that he would have to take that up with the Principal, which he did. The Principal obliged and lifted the old man off the floor with several swings of his paddle.
The old man thanked the principal and told the girl's teacher that if she had any more trouble with his daughter to let him know as he and the Principal had worked out a deal.
