Some teachers will give a child a fair hearing, and the benefit of any doubt, but not all will. If the police had the power to just arrest you and send you straight to gaol, without having to worry about trivialities like evidence or a trial, would you be confident they wouldn’t abuse that power? Wouldn’t you be even a little fearful that you might be wrongly targeted?
Of course I would. But the thing is – take my school. No teacher has the power to just grab a child and cane them without having to worry about trivialities such as evidence or a hearing. That hasn’t been the case since 1983 – and even before that there were some safeguards in place just not as many as I think there should have been.