{"id":2371,"date":"2019-10-04T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:04:21","slug":"cheek-chaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/cheek-chaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheek Chaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>We\u2019ve been talking and debating politics for weeks.\u00a0\u00a0There is no doubt, whatever side of the impeachment issue you\u2019re on \u2013 it\u2019s intense!!\u00a0\u00a0So let\u2019s take a break, and reminisce about forty years ago.\u00a0\u00a0Even that can be controversial.  Let\u2019s talk about \u2013 beating kids!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Back in the Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I first started teaching in 1978, in a rural school in Licking County, Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0Cornfields surrounded the high school; the joke was you had to push a cow aside to get a parking spot.\u00a0\u00a0One of the big events of the fall was tractor day, when the seniors drove their tractors to school and paraded them in the parking lot.\u00a0\u00a0A senior \u201cprank\u201d involved dumping dozens of live chickens in the school\u2019s enclosed courtyard.\u00a0\u00a0Each had a name tag, with the name of a faculty member written on it.   We taught class looking out at the &#8220;chicken coop.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a few years before I arrived, the school had been out of control.\u00a0\u00a0There was little student discipline; freshmen took their lives in their hands even going to the restroom.\u00a0\u00a0They hung from the hooks in the stall by their belts, kicking to get back down, or got wrapped in duct tape to the flagpole in front of the school.\u00a0\u00a0(<em>If you\u2019ve ever watch the movie \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d you\u2019ll get the idea.)<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The new Principal and Assistant came in to regain control.\u00a0 They did it at the business end of a three foot wooden paddle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I showed up as a student teacher, there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of paperwork involved in discipline.\u00a0\u00a0You gave a detention, fifteen-minutes before or after school.\u00a0\u00a0Or, you the student went to the office, where they generally got paddled.\u00a0One or two \u201cswats\u201d was standard, boy or girl, freshman or senior, it didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0\u00a0There was one senior who proudly had the record, fifty-four swats in a year.\u00a0\u00a0I imagine he had callouses in the appropriate places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swats<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Get in a fight:&nbsp;&nbsp;two swats.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cheat on a test:&nbsp;&nbsp;one swat.&nbsp;&nbsp;Skip school, a swat for each period you skipped.&nbsp;&nbsp;Often students knew that they were going to get it when they came to school in the morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some were better prepared than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process was simple.&nbsp;&nbsp;The student would go in the office, and the door would shut.&nbsp;&nbsp;The principal would say, \u201cis there anything in your pockets, empty them on the desk.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Then the student would turn around, and place their hands on the desk, leaning slightly forward.&nbsp;&nbsp;The paddling would begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Senior Skip Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The principals weren\u2019t interested in a \u201csenior skip day.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0But the seniors were serious about it, and decided they were going out no matter what.\u00a0\u00a0There was a problem for the track team members; they had to be in school for half a day to run in the meet that night.\u00a0\u00a0So rather than skip the \u201cskip day,\u201d they came in at the end of fourth period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highly annoyed principals determined the punishment was one swat for every period missed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Four swats:&nbsp;&nbsp;my hurdler ruefully showed me the welts in the locker room before we went out on the track.&nbsp;&nbsp;It didn\u2019t seem to hurt his times though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Equipment Failure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We were having a pep rally; the whole student body of over eight hundred kids stuffed int0 the five hundred person capacity gym.\u00a0\u00a0We called it the \u201csnake pit\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The  cheerleaders were on the stage getting everyone fired up, when one senior boy decided to have fun by going under the bleachers and poking up through the seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was on duty, and dragged him down to the office.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;During pep rallies there was usually one administrator left there:  his job was to be \u201cthe goalie.\u201d Kids  misbehaving during the rally were sent down to him (or her) for punishment.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thirty years later as Dean of Students, I often had that \u201cgoalkeeper\u201d duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in the early 1980\u2019s and paddling was growing more controversial.\u00a0\u00a0So this time the assistant principal asked me to stay around and witness the punishment.\u00a0\u00a0The boy followed the procedure, emptying his pockets on the desk, and \u201cassumed the position\u201d (<em>thanks to Animal House for that catch-phrase of paddling.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The Assistant Principal took the paddle back like Sabrina Williams going for a forehand winner, and swung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paddle hit, split in half, and fell to the floor.\u00a0\u00a0The boy looked down, first left, than right, with a look of shocked surprise more than pain on his face.\u00a0\u00a0The Assistant in his deep voice said, \u201ctake your wallet, you are dismissed\u201d.  The boy dashed from the room.\u00a0\u00a0It was a good thing he left quickly; it was hard to keep a straight face as we picked up the paddle pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Smack or Thud<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The principals got pretty good at metering how hard they hit. They knew what a \u201cgood swat\u201d sounded like.&nbsp;&nbsp;The idea was a stinging \u201csmack\u201d that would remind the student about the cost of transgression.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even the toughest senior guys left with tears in their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when students attempted to pad themselves, the principals were usually aware.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was the difference between \u201csmack\u201d and \u201cthud.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;A \u201cthud\u201d would send a student to the office restroom, to get down to one layer of underwear.&nbsp;&nbsp;It all sounds almost medieval now, but it was the standard process in those &#8220;ancient&#8221; times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Smart Kid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One boy decided he could beat the system.&nbsp;&nbsp;He knew what was coming, and he went into the office with unusual confidence.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wallet on the table, he placed his hands and faced the music.&nbsp;&nbsp;The principal laid the first hit, a satisfying \u201csmack.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;As he did, the boy\u2019s t-shirt slid slightly above his belt, revealing something more than a Fruit of Loom label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The principal asked, \u201c\u2026What is in your pants;\u201d another question that couldn\u2019t possibly be asked today.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not smiling now, the boy reached back, and pulled out his \u201ccheek chaps.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;He had cut off the top section of a western boot, split it, and placed leather \u201cchaps\u201d over each \u201ccheek.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;The principal laughed, and gave the boy credit for creativity.&nbsp;&nbsp;He then administered another swat, without leather protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We stopped beating students by the early 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 It did maintain discipline, but as the community became suburban, corporal punishment became unacceptable.\u00a0\u00a0That made sense; if parents weren\u2019t using corporal punishment at home it wasn\u2019t going to work at school.\u00a0\u00a0Besides, as an educator I never did understand how we could hit one student for hitting another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the concept has come down through time.&nbsp;&nbsp;To that \u201cbeaten\u201d generation of Watkins Memorial High School students, now well past fifty years old, they know what they need to \u201ccover their ass.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;They need \u201ccheek chaps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been talking and debating politics for weeks.\u00a0\u00a0There is no doubt, whatever side of the impeachment issue you\u2019re on \u2013 it\u2019s intense!!\u00a0\u00a0So let\u2019s take a break, and reminisce about forty years ago.\u00a0\u00a0Even that can be controversial. 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