Segment from a daytime TV chat show discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools. An earlier (2009) report on the same subject, including a view of an illegal immigrant's bottom after one stroke of the rotan. United States: PBS TV interview (2011) (6 minutes) with Peter Moskos, who discusses his book advocating flogging as an optional replacement for imprisonment in certain cases. An attempt is being made in Congress to outlaw school paddling nationally. Report gives a Texas perspective. A brief silent glimpse of an official caning in front of a crowd of thousands under the Zia regime, c.1980.

Thailand: A video of the caning of a boy in front of his class which attracted media attention in 2013. With news item. United States: Two spanking machines. Part of our feature The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture. United States: TV news report from April 2011 on a Missouri school district where the paddle (pictured) is in regular use.

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Clip (2003) shows parents spanking small children, interviews with a Christian father who spanks, lawyers, and activists, as anti-CP agitators take their case to the Canadian Supreme Court. Singapore: TV news broadcast from April 1994 on the vandalism case involving Michael Fay but also, shown speaking here, 17-year-old Andy Shiu Chi Ho, who was to be caned (6 strokes) two months after this appearance. A rare piece of historic actuality: four-minute extract from a 1978 TV documentary showing a high-school punishment session in Pennsylvania.

United States: TV news report (May 2015) on contrasting paddling policies in two Texas school districts. Of possible interest to film students and bad film buffs, two versions (TV and theater) of a scene from a cheesy TV-movie. "Nightmare in Badham County" was first shown on television in 1976 to capitalize on the then-popular women-in-prison exploitation trend. A racier R-rated version with added nude scenes was then released to theaters as "Nightmare" (and later on video).United States: A TV news report on school CP, Feb 2012. Schools in rural Texas explain their paddling policies, for which there is local support. A senior high-school student says he prefers receiving CP to other punishments. Syria/Iraq: Whippings by insurgent forces, including ISIS, who at the time had taken control of parts of both countries. Five films. A further follow-up to the previous two items. TV news report from Memphis school board town-hall meeting in July 2007 over continuing controversy about the Blue Ribbon Plan, which abolished CP. Speakers at the meeting are seen calling for the return of the paddle, and the reporter waves a paddle around for the camera. United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an (unsuccessful) attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee. Members of a commando unit in the Malaysian army get an unofficial on-the-spot caning in front of their comrades.

United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state.In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. A 1978 TV news item about a high-school paddling in a small Oklahoma town. One of the spanked students is interviewed. In a police station in the Indian part of Punjab (2010), a youth is punished with the "patta", more often seen in Pakistani Punjab. United States: "New State Law Has Schools Rethinking Corporal Punishment", TV news report from N. Carolina, Oct 2010.