Yes, could be. It depends if they were lovingly strict or meanly vindictive.
We had corporal punishment and hard work assignments at the prep school I went to, and as far as I can see, it was basically a good thing. Sometimes it was unfairly administered, but most students could see that the purpose was good. And not a few of those kids needed straightening out.
Among the helpful things it taught me is that life is tough.
Nowadays, there’s no such thing as corporal punishment in the schools. Instead, they send you to a psychiatrist and put you on ritalin, or they send you home for a week, or they just let you go off the rails and do nothing to really try to change it.
I agree. Kids get away with murder (literally) in schools these days. If a principal or teacher tries to discipline a child, they get into deep doo with parents (who are wrong). When they took God out of the schools, things only got much worse.