School Punishment Strap
School punishment straps are not used in the United States anymore. They were used here until corporal punishment was no longer allowed for unruly students. Canada, however, does still use the school punishment strap. It is made out of a thick rubber rather than leather that stings when it hits. For more information on the school punishment straps used in Canada go to www.corpun.com.
Posted by dvenezia2006 on 8/26/2009
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The Canadian school strap was generally administered to the hand, at least in public schools. In more recent times at least, it was typically made from rubber belting (or rubber on a canvas base) rather than leather.
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A school punishment strap on display in the museum at Melfort, Saskatchewan. This looks as if it is probably made of leather, whereas more recent ones tended to be made of rubber and canvas, as in these pictures.
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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.
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That sounds very like a tawse to me, rather than a straight punishment strap which is what Dean Clarke illustrates and describes. Assuming your experience of said implement was at school in the UK I presume it wasn't in Scotland or you'd probably have called it the belt or the tag or even the tawse rather than the strap.
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Penals were held twice a week after school, and the strap - only ever used by male staff - was gradually being used less. Peter Hawkins, who was appointed to attend to disciplinary matters, began at Kostka in 1971. ... Corporal punishment, however, remained a part of that discipline. The 'strap' was a two foot long,
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Public School punishment or abuse. I am not saying it didn't or doesn't exist but when we Catholic school kids reached High School, we could not believe the difference. Most of the "bad kids" the nuns so labeled turned out to do a lot better academically in general.
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School corporal punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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should be allowed by the school districts. Let’s look at some facts about corporal punishment before we delve into whether or not it truly is a solution to behavior problems in the school.
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3.This time Miss Collin decided that I ‘deserved’ the strap. When she meted out this abuse it was always a ritual. On this occasion, I was ordered out behind the cloakroom door. This was one of Miss Collin’s favourite methods and approach to this punishment. ... At the secondary school I was met with further abuse.
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