Change of Topic: Spanking

[Doc Com]

My dad's father was a high school teacher in Maine. It was an all boys school located on the coast of Maine. He lived on a small island off Maine. He typically rowed a boat to school and back. This was back in the 1930's and 1940's (he died sometime in the early 50's). He was the history teacher, PE instructor, basketball coach. Whenever there was fight in school amongst the boys, he would take them into the gym, string boxing gloves on them, and let them wail away at each other until they collapsed.

My dad was one of two boys in his family. Their basement was a makeshift boxing ring. When the boys got into spats, they were marched down to the basement. If one of the boys sassed his dad or mom or misbehaved, dad's dad would take that son to the basement for a little one-on-one action.

Spanking? Never heard of it.