Speaking of leather strops...
My 'Granny' (great grandmother) DID keep a strop on the kitchen door frame.
She used it for knives and us grandkids if we 'needed' it.
Speaking of paddling's...
They are still used in the county schools where I went to school. Now it has to be with parental consent though.
The parents have to sign a form saying that their kids can be paddled.
It wasn't like that when I grew up... It was a 'free for all'

But knowing where I grew up, I'm sure most parents give permission!
Heck, if our parents found out about us getting paddled in school, that generally meant that we got it again when we got home

I tell ya, some of those 'old lady teachers' were mean!
I don't really think that they were mean, it's just that they had spent decades dealing with us little smart aleck country boys and knew how to 'speak our language' if ya know what I mean

Sending us to the corner just didn't work
