times have changed, my old principle was a que and walked around with a paddle. Mofo gave wood on the spot. Have you in the cut like you on line
I'm old enough to remember those days.
Elementary school getting knuckles cracked with 5 rulers wrapped together with rubber-bands.
Middle school was the paddle. This was the Philadelphia school system in the 80's.
Times sure have changed!
Let me throw this out here because I also was subjected to in-school corporal punishment but the difference is that I'm relatively young (late 30s) and was in school from the late 80s to the early 2000s, a time when most schools had long stopped using corporal punishment. So you can take my experiences as examples as to what happens when you apply old-school discipline to older millennial kids. (roughly kids born between 1981-1990)
When I was in school I would see misbehaving kids get 5 to 10 times with a paddle being swung hard by a 6-5, 270lb man and those motherfuckers would continue to act up and eventually the paddling would lead to suspensions and expulsions, and collective class time being taken up.
No amount of paddling will straighten an extremely bad kid out, even the threat and usage of collective punishment, in which the kids who behaved still had to be subject to discipline which I experienced regularly and only served to kill classroom morale and cause fights as well behaved kids got angry that they got paddled for things they didn't do.
Discipline is necessary and when done correctly,
corporal punishment can be extremely effective for some kids but some kids can't be saved and quite honestly some kids weren't afraid of the shit or even phased by it.
Funny thing, what seemed to eventually work once I got out of school, was imposing fines ($30, $50, $100+) for bad behavior. Hitting working and middle class parents in the pocketbook started forcing these parents to do the heavy lifting and behavior improved substantially.