That's all? You must have grown up in the era of political correctness.
That wouldn't have flown where I went to school. I went to high school at an all boys, private, catholic military institute. Discipline was paramount.
I and most of my classmates were hit with rulers, pipes, fists, etc. more times than I could count, sometimes all in the same day.
At one point some parents took one of the teachers (the one with the pipes) and the school to court. The school's position was, "You sent your sons to CBC to be disciplined. If you don't want them disciplined, send them somewhere else." The school won the case.