The Baptist school kids weren't much better when I was growing up. I remember begging my mother to please, please, please write a check for a week's worth of lunch money so that it couldn't be taken from me day by day. Checks are a bit harder for 10/12 year olds to negotiate. She didn't want to write a check for so little. I was ashamed to tell her what was going on because I had asked to go to that school.
This is not the forum for it, but getting roughed up for my 75 cents every day was nothing compared to what the teachers did.