When I started at school, up till second-grade mild forms of corporal punishment were still allowed.
If you misbehaved enough, you were sent to the principal if you were a boy, or his wife if you were a girl.
They would both give you a hand spanking on the seat.
This practice stopped in the third grade.
From then on, for any misbehaviour, you got a note sent home for your parents to sign or a phone call was made to them.
My parents took behaviour in school very seriously, so any notes about even small misdemeanours would earn me a spanking.
These would always be administered by my father.
Mother would read the note I brought from school, scold me and then send me to my room to do my homework and wait for Dad to come home
Once he returned, Mom would inform him of the note and he would come up to my room to deal with me.
First, he would talk to me about my misbehaviour.
I was given a Christian upbringing, so father would say things like to misbehave at school was the same as misbehaving for Mother and Father.
To misbehave for your parents was the same as misbehaving for God.