I must be older than you.
When I was in school our teachers had the authority to use corporal punishment. I got it on ass with a ping pong paddle for fighting with another student and giving the phys-ed teacher crap.
Paddles don’t hurt much. Humiliation takes a chunk out of you, though.
And in the future I behaved.
Also there was the “three times” factor, first the teacher, then mom, then dad.
I don’t care if a kid is ‘special needs’ any more. If they’re not learning anything, and causing trouble for teacher and the other students, they need to be kicked out. IF they attack a teacher, they need a bloody hole stomped in them.
No they paddled kids when I was in school in fact I was in school the year it became illegal which was high school. In grade school however, yes they did it and yes it was done.
When I was in junior high there was a special ed class out in a portable and that teacher had a paddle hanging over his black board. When the kids would act up he’d point to it. I never knew of him to actually use it, I think just pointing to it made the kids settle down.
As for not learning anything some of them can and do learn but how can the rest of them learn anything if every day there is one doing a floor show in the class room that cause a disruption?