In first grade, Miss Cenci, used a jump rope.
Nobody messed w/ Miss Cenci.
In 5th grade Blaine public school in Chicago in the 1940s, Killer Lagrue (a female teacher) used a ruler across the hand or a book upside the head for talkative or fidgety students.
Did the jumper-upper have to jump rope in the corner? Or she tied them into the chairs? I often thought, when I taught in the classroom, that bubble wrap and duct tape were highly underrated.
In fourth grade, Mr. Razzman beaned you with a fast-ball piece of chalk smack on the side of the head — thrown from his desk at the front of the room. You got your head screwed on right pretty quickly in Mr. Razzman’s room.
The nuns used rulers.
My 2nd grade teacher tied kids to chairs and paddled us with a ping pong paddle. Parents loved her. She’d be in jail in these times.