1907: PUBLIC SCHOOLS BAN WHIPPING

Even if Mom and Dad plead with the teacher and the administration, there will be no further
whipping or otherwise physical contact with students. How quaint.

1924: School Discipline, 1924

The hose "stings, but doesn't make a mark." Can you imagine 21st century school teachers taking a rubber hose to one or two the the "n'er do wells" in our modern system? My mom would give unconditional authority to use that hose anytime I stepped out of line, and I dare say most of my contemporaries would agree. I recall that now archaic saying...."spare the rod, spoil the child."