Fighting Back
Those are from the movie called Fighting Back (Australia 1982) 1. In the staff room, a seasoned colleague suggests to the new teacher that he get a strap for corporal punishment. The older teacher calls the strap 'the persuader'. 2. The deputy principal, Mr. Payne M/m Tom, hint of strapping on his bum, position of standing with folded arms, in the teacher's study, no actually spanking. At the start of the corporal punishment, it looks like the teacher has changed his mind and is going to spank him with the strap after all. However, the punishment quickly shifts to the loathed strapping on the hands. That's why we say there is only a hint of a spanking on the bottom. The strapping is a punishment for defiant behavior, talking back, truancy, and a complete lack of respect for authority. Tom reacts aggressively to the commands of the veteran educator, refuses to submit to school discipline, and resists both verbally and physically. Payne views this as a total breakdown o...