Next Dr. Death has managed to de-rail this thread with his fairness doctrine. Unfair punishment would obviously cause a lot of fear and a few kids looking for an opportunity for retribution. However, this line of thought steers us away from my point. Intentionally so I suspect.
My point is this atmosphere of fear and oppression is a deliberate design created and perpetuated by the school administrators. No one wants to address this issue because it is very distasteful to think our educators would stoop to such low levels. But they do. What other reason would there be for a Principal to take a kid out of his office and into the hall to paddle. More room to swing? That is what I call teacher speak. The real reason is to strike fear into the hearts of every kid in that school when they hear those loud swats followed by loud uncontrollable crying.