Graphic footage of a different Malaysian judicial caning. Full-length version of a 10-stroke caning for which we previously had only an "edited highlights" version. As she climbed the stairs thoughts of her own upbringing and the spankings she had received raced through her mind, what part of her naughty bottom had taught her the most? What words had her Mummy used to send the message home? What advice from her mentors, the W.I. and the Vicar helped her do what was needed? The memories spoke to her…”Spare the rod, spoil the child.”“It is for her own good.”“She will thank you one day.” Three versions of a scene from one of the St Johns schools of Canada, part of our series on "Top CP Schools". Caught on camera at a public swimming pool in present-day Iran, punishment is administered with a flipper by the swim coach. I have just finished the first incident in the ‘Saint Helena High School for Wayward Girls ~ Incident Log’

A 1978 TV news item about a high-school paddling in a small Oklahoma town. One of the spanked students is interviewed.Mummy sat on the bed, and slid the slipper deftly under the pillow. Then turned a nervous, worried Karen to face her. “I told you quite plainly Karen, that if you were naughty at school, you would be punished at home.” As she did this she tugged the pyjama bottoms down, to land in a puddle at her daughters ankles. United States: TV news anchor Shepard Smith describes getting paddled at his private school in the late 1970s. The leaving of school behind her and the journey home was sullen. The man in the bowler hat frowned at her as if he knew. The walk from the bus stop to her lovely cottage was heavy and slow. Two of Mummy’s friends saw her and nudged each other. Was that a snigger?

United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state. Two clips from North Carolina and one from Georgia look at the state of play over school paddling in specific places. United States: TV news report (June 2014) on the acquittal on assault charges of a school principal in Mississippi who had paddled three boys.

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United States: TV news report, July 2012: A school district in Tennessee decides that parents will be assumed to consent to CP unless they state to the contrary in writing (instead of the other way round). Dec 2012: Two young men are paraded before TV cameras on the courtroom steps after being sentenced to strokes of the rotan for rape and robbery.