the public school system is corporal punishment within itself..
went to the same type of high school that
@DrX mentioned,i often laugh to myself now trying to imagine some ridiculous anti bullying campaign being enacted when i went to school..
had teachers fall asleep at their desks,seen full fledged riots almost break out at summer school,nearly everyone i knew brought some kind of weapon,we used to have mini competitions to see how fast we could run substitutes out of the classroom,etc ad nauseam..
tis a mini miracle that i actually attended&graduated college,and even that turned out to be a trap&one of the worst mistakes i made in my lifetime..the definition of irony