The principle called my foster parents and after I got home, I got another whipping that was far worse. Needless to say, I didn't dare do anything that would land me in that position again.
The main problem with parents today is that they don't support corporal punishment in schools - and their kids aren't disciplined at home. But worse than that school teachers and administrators rarely enforce discipline if at all. Hence, we've raised two generations of hooligans, thieves, robbers, liars and rapists. Sad.
Corporal punishment left the schools when litigation entered the picture. Even going back as far as the 1930s, there were some parents who “shopped” their wicked children to schools, knowing they would get corporal punishment, and then the parent would sue.
I heard this from an old man who had been a young principal at the time. Given a heads up about this woman and her vicious little brat, when the boy got into a third floor classroom not his own, and threw its pet hamsters out the window, the principal did not touch the boy.
Instead he rescheduled him, so that as a third grader he would take recess with the fifth graders. And they had no tolerance for his antics and whupped him. Then when his mother showed up and threatened a lawsuit, he noted that the school was legally blameless, but if she wanted to, she could sue the parents of the “river rat” (PWT) kids who beat her son.
Knowing there was no money in that, she and her son moved to the next town, where the principal informed that town’s school principal what was on the way.