Yeah, my mom was the regional manager of "getting up in people's shit" when it came to her childrens' education. President of the parent advisory committee at my high school, kept a book on every one of my teachers. I don't recall any physical altercations between teachers and students in my high school (although one teacher did marry one of his former students - not sure how former she was when it happened)
But in grade school in the 70's there were 2 teachers in particular (both coincidentally British ex-pats) who were quite fond of meting out corporal punishment. Mrs. Farquharson, my Grade 3 teacher, would make you come to the front of the class, hold out your hands palms up and give you ten strokes on each one with a heavy wooden ruler. She did this because she considered the school Principal to be a wuss who wouldn't do it so she didn't send you to his office when you misbehaved, she took care of the problem in the moment. And she was right. Everyone knew the Principal didn't have it in him to use the strap on anyone, even though the strap was definitely a thing that was available and authorized for use by the school board back then.
Then there was Mr. Arthurs, a coal miner's son from the north of England. He was no fucks given before that was a thing. He would pick you up by your ear lobe and march you out of the class if you got unruly and routinely referred to students by such nicknames as "cloth ears". He also usually referred to the class as a whole by snidely calling us "you lot". And yet, they were both very good teachers who both I and my parents respected because they actually cared about educating kids, despite their old world methods. They were invested, as any teacher ideally should be, in their students. I respected teachers like them a lot more than the milquetoast ones who let their kids run amok. And in retrospect, I like the fact that they didn't give you anything for free, just because you existed. Their mantra was "You will receive respect so long as you deserve it" and they were the ones who decided if you did or not.
