Paddle Spanking

I was never very good at spelling – and that lack of ability led to my first and only school paddling, back in the 1980s. I was in second grade at a school in Atlanta, Georgia, when one day our class teacher, Miss Harvey, announced the spelling test out of the blue. We would be all be tested on 20 words ‘you ought to know well by now’. I felt my heart sink. As the test began, I was initially quite surprised and pleased to find that I knew the answers to the first few words, but then they got harder and finally impossible. It was at that point that I glanced over to my desk mate, Jennifer Buckley (the desks were all in rows of twos and we were sat boy-girl-boy-girl, presumably to help maintain discipline). She was writing studiously and confidently and I could see her answers. So for the re...

It is one of the ironies of my high school life that I got one of my most painful paddlings from my favorite teacher. The factors that contributed to how much it hurt adjust to how thin my gym shorts were, and the fact that she was a fit young lady with strong arms. Coach B was pretty new to the job and I think I was one of the first girls she ever paddled. So maybe it was her inexperience combined with my thin shorts back that made it so painful. It was my own fault I was being paddled, as I went to school in a dress that was far too short and was reported to the Assistant Principal. when he interviewed me he said I’d already had one warning from him and so this time it would mean the paddle. I did point out that the dress I had on was longer than the cheerleader’s uniform we were allowed...