Classroom

Class Room

A classroom, also known as a schoolroom, is a room set aside for lessons. Classrooms are normally found in a school where they might be dedicated to a particular teacher, subject or a class, depending on the origination structure of the school.

Classrooms can also be found in other places other than schools, such as corporate offices for employees to receive training, or large homes where children are home-schooled, or take extra tutoring.

Typical equipment

Classrooms normal have desks for the students to work at, and a means for displaying information to the whole of the class simultaneously. Traditionally this was done via a blackboard, but is being commonly replaced with whiteboards and projections devices. Underneath the blackboard, elementary school classrooms often had a platform for shorter pupils to mount when writing on the blackboard.

The teacher will have a desk as well, usually at the front of the classroom facing the students, which is usually bigger and of a different type than the student's desks. In addition (or instead of the teacher's desk) there may be a lectern, this was most common up to the 19th century.

Classrooms also tend to be decorated with material that will work as study aids with primary topics taught in the room, such as educational maps, charts, or models.

There is normally support for either students to learn to write, or once they have learned, to take notes. In Antiquity, clay or wax slates were used for that purpose. In the 19th century and into the 20th century, young students would write with styluses on small slates that were like a personal version of the blackboard before they were considered old enough to write on paper. Today paper is used primarily, typically bound as notebooks, coming in blank, lined, and checkered versions. The switch to paper first meant things like inkwells and related cleaning supplies, later replaced with things like pencil sharpeners. So the small details are very period based.

Classrooms and spanking

Classrooms are a common location for public spankings due to a long history school corporal punishment. While such punishments could be delivered at the student's desk. More common would the student be call to the front of the classroom to receive their chastisement.

While some classroom scenes can be with pervertibles such as a ruler, blackboard pointer, or a plimsoll (a type of tennis shoe). But classroom scenes are also probably the biggest source of dedicated spanking implements. This is the realms of the birch, cane, paddle, strap and the tawse.

Classrooms can also be the scene of private spanking if the scene is set during class breaks or after school.

List of Spanking Implements
Flat spanking implements bath brush (wooden or plastic) belt bimmy cooking spatula (wooden or plastic) dough scraper (rubber or silicone) flyswatter hairbrush (wooden or plastic) leather paddle Newspaper paddle (wooden paddle) ping-pong paddle ruler (wooden or plastic) slapper/flapper slipper / Plimsoll strap / Strop tawse wooden spoon Stick-like spanking implements blackboard pointer cane (rattan, bamboo etc.) crop ferula stick switch yardstick Other spanking implements baccalà (clipfish) birch carpet beater Quirt rope's end scourge stinging nettles Whipping implements include bullwhip cat o' nine tails chicotte (an African whip) flail flogger horsehair whip human hair whip klopfpeitsche loopy johnny martinet quirt rebenque (South American gaucho whip) rubber hose single-tail whip sjambok (South African whip)
Some spanking implements produce more "sting" while others produce more "thud". See "sting and thud" for more on this distinction.

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