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Originally Posted by srmom
Back to this situation. In may day, the way something like this would have been handled is by the principal sending the kid to the football coach for swats - that was the universal punishment for boys. I heard the paddle had holes in it for aerodynamics.  |
The aerodynamics allows for the paddle to swing faster and also distributes the swat over a smaller area. A properly designed paddle can allow a typing teacher to swat like a PE teacher with a non-holed padded and a PE teacher to raise welts...