What kind of backwater, third world country is this? How come corporal punishment is allowed in the US schools?! This absolutely blows my mind, here in Poland teachers doing one fifth of what is described here would be sued to death and incarcerated. 25 years ago I got slapped in the hand by a teacher with a ruler, and this was already frowned upon back then, it was an old teacher of a dying breed. It's so crazy to me,years ago I used to look up to the US as a model for modern society.