North Carolina's Stokes County Academy student rules in the year 1824 included the following number of lashes for various forms of student misconduct:
| Misconduct |
Lashes |
| Blackgarding each other |
6 |
| Boys and girls playing together |
4 |
| Climbing for every foot over three feet up a tree |
1 |
| Coming to school with dirty face and hands |
2 |
| Fighting at school |
5 |
| For bloting your copy book |
2 |
| For caling each other liars |
4 |
| For drinking spirituous liquors at school |
8 |
| For every word you mis in your hart leson without good excuse |
1 |
| For going to girl's play places |
3 |
| For hollowing and hooping going home |
3 |
| For misbehaving to girls |
10 |
| For not making a bow when going out to go home |
2 |
| For not saying yes sir and no sir or yes ma'am or no ma'am |
2 |
| For waring long finger nails |
2 |
| For weting each other washing at play time |
2 |
| Gambleing or beting at school |
4 |
| Girles going to boys play places |
2 |
| Making swings and swinging on them |
7 |
| Misbehaving to persons on the road |
4 |
| Nicknaming each other |
4 |
| Playing at cards at school |
10 |
| Swaring at school |
8 |
| Telling lyes |
7 |
| Telling tales out of school |
8 |