Smacked legs

My mom talked about a ruler across the knuckles.
Worst I got was in first grade. The teacher slammed my desk top on my hands while I was trying to get a pencil out. (that one was a witch to many!)

My parents used to when I was littLe.

Legs! When I went to school it was either ruler or pointer across the knuckles. Even the occasional slap across the back of the head.

A little more intense when I was in school... Common practice if you disrupted the class was to be called to the front of the class, bend over and grab your ankles facing the rest of the class and receive one or two swats with a wood paddle. Yes, both boys and girls

Yea, mother wore a lamp cord necklace when school was out.
And not only the legs😳

Smacked thighs was a common infant school (5-7) punishment when I was at school in England in the 1950-60s.

Then boys wore shorts and girls wore dresses, so it was quite easy to smack naughty pupils on the bare thighs.

I got it a few times. It did sting and it also left a a tell tale red mark.

I got a snack bum when I was about 6. I knew plenty of kids that got the slipper.
Worst thing I ever saw was the PE lesson at high school. We all had to put out our kits for inspection. One kid didn't have the right gear so the teacher grabbed his trainer and smacked him over the head with it. Lots of things that weren't supposed to be allowed, happened at the school.
A few days later the teacher came across the kids parent and ended up through a floor to ceiling pane of glass. After that he was less aggressive with us all.

Yes it was just common place then it wasn't that painful unless you were in shorts

I went to a private school the cane was regularly used .

no I never saw any kids get smacked but I remember in junior high a boy was sent to the office for the strap

In my school it was our backsides

most of the school punishments were abolished as i got to secondry school so escaped but didn't escape mom n dad they were very strict they had to endure all the punishments going in school and at home

Lot of corporal punishment back in the day. That heavy black strap was awful . 10 lashes on each hand 🤚
Thank god they can’t get a way with it today …

My late grandfather was a pe teacher, he'd grab students by their ear, slightly twist it and then try to to pull their weight by it. My dad remembers it . Pretty brutal but was common for the era

If you had some of those kids everyday, all day you might be the first one doing the paddling

That's something that wasn't done except many years ago . I never had a teacher hit anyone.

What country?

No. But I got punished in other ways -.-

I always got a smacked leg. But I tend not to dwell on it now tbf.
Even got knuckle rapped with rulers.

Nope. No leg smacking.

No, the nuns rulered our hands. The principal paddled “problem kids”. But fortunately, corporal punishment stopped being allowed at schools here.

I was smacked across my face by my first grade teacher for being a smart ass

My friend had a box of nails thrown at his head by the woodwork teacher. Left his forehead looking like the surface of the moon.