I think you are very much closer to the truth than you realize. Teachers in a vast majority of classrooms today...can't touch the kid let alone look at them the "wrong way." If appropriate types of discipline have been removed from both teachers and parents.... what else does that leave?
“closer to the truth than you realize”
Wrong I realize it in technicolor.I was a custodian in a Ct elementary school.
Every parent should be required to spend a week in the “background” as I was.