Have you ever been spanked, beaten or otherwise abused ...

[J-Mann]

No -- it was out of fashion by the time I went to school, although my brother and sister (10 and nine years older than me, respectively) remember kids being tossed around.

There's certainly a line of acceptable punishment which some teachers would cross, but to be honest, sometimes an asshole kid just flat-out needs his ass handed to him. Going from an era of corporal punishment to a consequence-free educational environment hasn't helped anything.

My dad went to school in the 1950s, and he remembered being in high school in a wood shop class and the teacher was talking about safety around the equipment. Some kid was goofing off, not paying attention and distracting others, so the teacher grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and the back of his pants and threw him into a stack of desks.

He had to go home because his pants ripped. Nothing was ever said again about the incident (likely, his parents thought it was justified) and the kid was well behaved from that point forward.