This thread seems to have devolved into descriptions of our actual childhood school CP descriptions, so I'll add mine (although I've mentioned it in the past and this is nothing new):
I was raised in a northeastern USA industrial city. In my elementary school CP happened in the Principal's office, in gym class and in the boy's shop class. The gym teachers and the shop teacher had traditional school paddles, used in the traditional bent-over fashion. Our Principal favored OTK spankings. I heard several over the years, and the sound was quite unmistakable! They were brief but loud events. I wouldn't swear in a court that they ever happened bare bottom, but I can tell you for a fact that at least some boys were spanked pants-down. How do I know? Because I indirectly saw a spanking happen through the Principal's window, and one thing my eyes saw directly was a pair of feet sticking in the air with pants bunched around them!
The one time I actually received CP in that same office was (in retrospect) a mostly ceremonial event, several slaps of a ruler to my palm. It scared the hell out of me!
High school CP was was mostly the job of the boy's and girl's Deans, who used a few paddle swats in the traditional manner. I only know this through reputation, so I can't personally swear that it actually happened. |