Something else that she discovered in the policy was that it was not mandatory for a female administrator to paddle a female student, but instead a “same sex witness” was required if a member of the opposite sex was being paddled. She asked around and no one could recall this ever happening as both the male and the female VPs had always handled the paddling of students. A teacher could paddle a student in the presence of a school administrator. She looked into the details of the district’s corporal punishment policy and found that teachers were not allowed to apply corporal punishment in the classroom, but were not completely restricted from its use. She knew that a paddling from her would not really make the impression that she was looking for so she explored her options. Her goal was to deal with discipline issues effectively and to reduce the amount of girls that found their way into her office. She wanted to make her reputation from day one and certainly did not want to come across as soft. She had found out that the previous female VP handled corporal punishment herself and used it very often.
Her husband was the primary spanker in their home as she just did not seem to be very effective with it. One thing she did know was that she was not very good at applying it. She had no issues with corporal punishment in fact all of her children had been spanked at some point in their lives. She knew coming in that corporal punishment was widely used in this school, but only the VP’s could administer it. As the female vice principal her primary duty was to deal with discipline issues for the 10th-12th girls. It was legal in the state, but each district set its own rules. The middle school she came from, while in the same city, did not use corporal punishment. Her goal was to become the school’s principal so this was a good step for her. After four years as a middle school vice principal she finally was offered the same position at a high school one county over. She had come up as an elementary teacher and then eventually achieved her Master’s degree in education, which finally led to a VP job at a small middle school. It was her 1st assistant principal at the high school level.