there’s no guarantee at all that the punishments would be perceived as “fair”. Even the teachers might regard them as unfair. But they would be effective. So there would be a conflict: make the regime fairer, and run the risk of a general deterioration in behaviour, or generate bottled-up resentment instead. Which would you choose?
This is spot on as I see it !
This is the problem when you try to deal with a group of sentient individuals as if they were all in some way ,equivalent. We know punishments impact differently on them all , psychologically, physically, emotionally. Different modalities pose different challenges to each
That’s why I’m concentrating on this difference between the individual objective of education and the social objectives of schooling.