Quota reached on paddling
Ol’ Sparky was Coach’s paddle. It was
a rather ordinary paddle that Coach cut out with a band saw in the woodshop,
but it had taken Olympian proportions in the folklore of the junior-high boys.
Ol’ Sparky was generally believed to be eight feet long and encrusted with
stainless steel lugs from which fluttered bits of torn Levis. A single blow was
supposed to make one unable to sit for eight to 10 weeks, to cause one’s toes
to fall off and to render one unable to have kids, ever.
Newspaper columnist Jeff Millar has some
fun with a plan to record all spankings that take place in schools.
As
published in the Houston Chronicle (Texas, United States), 21 January
1976
Picture credit: Disarten
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What a strange article!
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