You’re on the wrong site. DU is over yonder. This is NOT abuse. Abuse is allowing children to get away with bad behavior. Thinking like your’s is why teenagers and college kids are like they are today.
When I was a 10-year old girl my punishment was to chop/split firewood with an axe (gasp!) for a week or shovel sh** out of the barn by myself for a week, or get up a 4:00am to feed and water livestock by myself for a week. Those were my regular chores but I usually had four siblings to help, unless I was being punished. If we had lived in town I would have been running to school too.
My daddy didn’t raise any sissies or bullies.
Oh, and REAL abuse would have been tying him to the car and dragging him to school, not making him run.