Eastern Education: Tawse & Paddle
From Bottom Line Studios
“Senior student Aiden Kim has been caught playing on his mobile phone in class. He is punished in after school in Headteacher Mr. Palaiologos’ office: first with a stinging round on the hands with the tawse, and then solid dose with the paddle on the butt.”
To paraphrase Dickens, whose great Victorian stories Aiden foppishly failed to study sternly in Hector’s elite English class, it seems the worst of times for Aiden to be back like in the East while in the West, and it is the best time for Hector to get the East come revive the Dickensian age of the West!
When the Confucian Kims immigrated due to his strict father’s expat dream job, ‘spoiled brat’ Aiden cared way less about things like his increased allowance and luxurious home then the unhoped-for prospect of interrupting his never-ending Confucian-pious nightmare of being utterly subject to pitiless paternalistic punishment at pleasure from about every elder male, who seemed to enjoy nothing more than ordering his ‘bad boy bottom of all bratty problems’ bashfully bared for blistering beatings beyond black and blue as bountifully as they bark ad lib, which was about always and anywhere as the family couldn’t afford any entertainment but(t) staked every effort on getting some clan member(s) to study his tail off towards a well-paid job, and his father did it, abroad.
Alas for the naughty knave, the constantly-crimson-coned-cur-coveted spanking-free Western-life-segments out of his home here, where paternalism would obviously continue to bare and batter his brat-behind as badly and brutally, enjoying sissy-Western posterior-pain-free punishments like detention and extra assignments, proved just a dream, as father found a strict private prep-school which recruits from the strictest families, like the Kims and more Asians, by offering a permission slip approving loco parentis CP after classes in a legally separate ‘All-AAs-Ambition Advancement Association’ (A6), run by Hector and some friends, which rents some school premises after class hours and on Saturdays for its ‘time-trusted tactile-techniques-tutoring’ which entails evening-late-lasting elitist excellence-enforcement, for who gets top-grades it’s ‘just’ study time excluding any ‘lazy’ entertainment, for others like Aiden every grade under A+ entails eerily-exposed excruciation and endless extra-lessons, blistering his better-behaved-boys-boyhood-beheld, beatings-bound brat-butt as bloody-bountifully as at home, where his fearsome father never fails to find fun in the ‘fucking-up’ filial fledgling’s follow-up frockless-fanny-flogging, firmer-still as fits his first flailer! As if that weren’t bad enough, Hector’s A6 co-director’s Scottish and Irish ancestry inspired adding “strapping” boys’ hands by tawse and caning calves to the ancestral arse-agony-arsenal and were quickly adopted at home, so now he and A6-mates were guaranteed about-always aching awfully almost all-over.
For Hector, ever-stricter woke laws and additional rules from the school board, bluntly banning about any efficient punishment in class, office or detention, due to disciplinarian degradation definitely drained the daily didactive drive and enthusiastic educational energy from him and like-minded staffers over the years, to the point of contemplating to move and join a foreign school without such stupid restrictions, till he came up with the A6 concept, which now again brings home happily hiding humble-hound-heinies heathenishly-harshly hell-hot-heated ‘home-style’ he-hood-heeded by personalized parental permission for ‘perimeters’ of properly-ponderous punitive preppie-paining, particularly pantless-puerile-posterior-pounding, peacock-proud of his proposed, parents-popular-proven plus-clause permitting peer-parallel punishment: any paining practiced on a pupil’s peer, classmate or kin, is thereafter allowed on him, so next term the A6 board will make it standard and opt-outs a criterion to refuse candidates, which will convince about all candidates. Hector and his hiding-happy-horde will then; ironically, enjoy baring and beating brat-boy-butts way more than erstwhile, as they take over from many adults who abdicated from aptly and amply applying agonising attributes to abject adolescent arses and adopt additional areas as well as attributes, Asian as-well.