Don White wrote in
:

Here it was the leather 'strap' until the late '60s.
Sometimes it didn't take much for the teacher to send you to the
cloakroom and administer 5 or 10 whacks to each hand. By junior high
the female teachers couldn't hurt you much, but a strong male teacher
could make it sting.


Mrs. Hubert, my 6th Grade teacher, used the metal drawing edge of an 18"
wooden ruler on all our fingers. She'd hit it so hard you'd bleed. I'll
never forget her abuse.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in
chalk.