The LAST thing a pair of possible fatheads like those 2 need is a lesson that spells out VIOLENCE is in any way acceptable;how do you teach them it isn’t by inflicting it on them? You have to teach them violence is never right, and fast, not use it to try and subdue them.
And that applies to boys as well. Anti-social behaviour of the nature that APPEARS to be cannot be tolerated.
But, would you, for instance, have taken a 12-stroke BB caning the last time you got caught smoking over, say, detention every night for six weeks?