Here, a staff member goes along the line disciplining each student across the seat of the grey uniform trousers with a baseball bat. Also another brief clip, evidently from out-takes (filmed for the same item but not used), of army lads purporting to discuss the choice between taking a caning and being confined to barracks. There also seems to be something a bit wrong with the perspective, but that might be because it was originally part of a stereoscopic double image for use in a 3-D viewer. This one is at Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria and is supposed to represent the situation in 1875, when a "hazel rod" was used for punishment, according to a 2008 newspaper article in German that is no longer on line. A man who spanked his 9-year-old son is shocked to be charged with child abuse, an accusation his lawyer describes as unwarranted.

A birching is under way at left, with the culprit being held down over a bench, his nether garments lowered to expose the buttocks. Thailand: A video of the caning of a boy in front of his class which attracted media attention in 2013. A North Carolina school district abolishes corporal punishment, though many local parents would have wished it kept. Caption at lower right: "Only headmaster or principal or teacher with written authorisation may give a caning.

A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana. Bent over in the hall was preferred by teachers, as they could get the teacher across the hall as a witness and both could keep an eye on their classes.

Australia: TV news report (July 2014) about a government education expert who caused controversy by saying he supported CP in schools. This procedure is described by my informant as "the traditional method of discipline at the university until the mid-1980s". Hay's stage directions precisely describe this somewhat unusual modus operandi whereby two chairs are placed back to back.

This scene (Jan 2007) is a little blurred, but it looks as if the Discipline Master is getting the boy to bend lower across the desk before inflicting the strokes. TV news segment from Tennessee (Dec 2009) about a strange case in which high-school students negotiated to get swats instead of doing their work.