We had the strap when I was about 9 years old. I got it once from a teacher who was a real prick. I was a good student, I loved school work and home work. I had a huge sense of fairness though and this teacher had a teachers pet that he let do everything. She got all the privileges and I used to complain that it wasn't fair to the others in the class who worked hard and so I got strapped.

We never had one in our school, though one grade school had a paddle with holes in it:-( No, I never got it but I heard about the 'effect'

I remember this instrument of punishment in public school of the 1970's. This was a piece of rubber belting, about 18" in length, and upn impact, it had the sound effect of a pistol shot! It did have a temporary stinging sensation which was intensified with every stroke. The norm seemed to be about 3 whacks per outstretched palm. Teachers used to embellish things by either placing a book across your arms or having you kneel down as the strap was applied. I received the strap about 3 times throughout my public school career!

We had the can, the board rubber, chalk (both thrown at us), steel rule and slippers (gym type)

They had The Paddle in my schools. No, I never got the paddle.

In my case it was the cane which I got regularly (as did everyone else out of fairness) Spare the rod and you spoil the child was the school policy. One day as I was being caned I gripped it and snapped it, I got sent home in disgrace, upon telling my Father he produced a cane and finished the punishment with interest.......I took my school 'punishment' without complaint after that :o(

Many of my school mates received the strap regularly in my public schooling in Ontario. I was threatened with the strap but never received it at school. However receiving the strap on my hands at home was a regular occurrence. I usually received from 5 to 10 on each hand. My hands and forearms were welted and red afterward. As I was reaching puberty at the time, after a while I found the strapping experience a real turn on. To this day I wish I could go back to school and experience the whole ritual of being sent to the principals office, sitting outside while hearing another student receiving a strapping and then going in to receive my own strapping on my hands...sigh

I sure can relate very well with Tantricleather! Ditto to him as I have gone through the same thing in Ontario Schools. I remember so well the ritual of the Black rubber regulation strap warming my hands on many occasions! I do have such fond memories of myself and classmates lined up at the door od the principal and hearing the wift snap of the rubber making contact! I sue would love to being into the same situation and gowing through it with the same buddies! It was comfort in numbers. As a matter of fact when the strap became a relict of the past I was able to scrounge a few from past principals and teachers! I have 6 of them, 4 black and 2 are red. They are made with industrial rubber belting, 16" long, 1 1/2" wide rounded ends, roled edges and a hole for hanging. Quite a piece of work indeed!

yes, I got it once and I was totally innocent. The school principal gave it to about 200 kids that day for throwing snowballs. I wasn't guilty of anything but he was such an asshole...that he would even listen. My only hope is in karma.

we were still getting caned up until 1990

Strap? no. Paddle? yes. I don't remember any of the times that were just, they were done and gone. I know I got it, but I also knew I deserved it and accepted it and let it go. The one time I do remember was the time it wasn't my fault. A girl in my class ran away from home. She didn't like me, but for some reason she came to my house. She had a bag packed and said she'd asked if she could sleep over. My mother said that was fine, as long as she checked with her mother, so she went to the phone in the hall and pretended to call her mother. All was fine, and I was thinking that I had a new friend and things were going to be different in school, when she sat up in the middle of the night and told me the truth. I told her I had a responsibility to my mother to tell her the truth. Of course, when I did mom immediately called the girl's parents to tell them where she was and that she was safe. They were very grateful and came running to collect her. The next day, she beat me up in class. The teacher paddled us both. With forty years of hindsight I remember that she had a mom and a stepfather. Now I wonder if she was being abused or molested and I wish I could go back and ask her. I don't even remember her name. So if you are out there and you recognize yourself in the story, I'm sorry if you were being harmed and I was too thick to know. I didn't know about those things then, and I do now.

There were no straps in Massachusetts when I was I school. It was illegal as it should be. No teacher should have the right to adminster corporal punishment to a child. If any teacher ever used a strap on my child they would be in court so fast. It is unbelievable to me that any school would ever had used this "punishment" in the 20th century.

No, but I remember the "paddle." Come to think of it--we didn't have any SHOOTINGS back then, either. Hmmmm....

I got a metal tipped ruler on my bare ass for cursing on the bus. It happened down here in FLorida when i was a kid. Being from NY... Im sure you can imagine what my mother did to that man when she found out. I got to stand right in his face and laugh at his ass as she completely demasculated his ass in front of everyone!

They had a paddle, but they never paddled girls. I know that's the only thing that saved me. }=D

Yes and yes