Ha! Yes, my fourth grade teacher was a very petite Japanese man. When the boys would act up he’d whack them with a yard stick. HARD! I doubt anyone ever complained, even to their parents. They knew they were being brats.
My fourth grade teacher was Mr. Raszman at Cayuga Heights Elementary in Ithaca, NY back in 1960. He would bean me from across the room with a piece of blackboard chalk if I got the teeniest bit out of line. It was a well behaved classroom. He was the only male teacher I had in elementary school. Even the female teachers knew how to control a room back then.
Wow, I just found his obituary. He passed only a few years ago at age 91. Sure enough, he was a WW II vet!
Paul R. Raszmann, 1928 - 2020.