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# the threat of violence is remarkable when handled well, especially in schools
As a child of the 70s and early 80s we were all very much aware of the slipper, metre rule, and cane's existance but didn't know of anyone actually on the receiving end.
I can't recall a single badly behaved kid at my school either.

The trick is to keep it a threat not a reality, as soon as one kid is punished it all falls apart as it becomes either a badge of honour to the wrong'uns or simply known to be not that bad.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:31, archived)
# my few recent threats of violence and near muggings
have resulted in me (a wee little fella) shouting aggressively at our would be attackers demanding to know where my glasses are (having just been punched off my face) and asking for our wallet/bag back. on both occasions it worked. no idea what came over me, i just talked with authority, like a teacher
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:45, archived)
# A nicer school than mine, the really out of control kids got used to it.
Some people get more angry than frightened and take it out on others.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:46, archived)
# i had the slipper :(
then got to high school and cane was banned YaY :)
(herman:D, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 21:08, archived)
# Personally I doubt that it would currently cause much difference.
Surely there was still truancy and bad behaviour during times when corporal punishment was commonplace. This argument all seems to be predicated on the understanding that since there's well behaved kids somewhere then the cane is doing it's job merely by being said to exist and maybe used occasionally on the question that it doesn't. And not that there's some bad kids with justification for being bad and some other kids who are inexplicably so and moreover that there are kids that are naturally or inexplicably well behaved alongside them.

Isn't the question not whether kids are behaving but whether the adults they become are behaving and further whether they've had the chance to learn anything during their time at school?
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 21:19, archived)
# A deterrent that is used has failed.
I'm certain there was one teacher at school who got his jollies from beating kids. A real throbbing man likes it when they can't fight back apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 11:46, archived)
# I started primary school in 1980 (Ireland) and from the teachers, I got . . .
. . . punched, slapped, the strap (leather baton across the hand '6 of the best' as the head called them), meter ruler's broke over my ass, hair pulled and mouth washed out with a soap bar . . . but it was worth every second!
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 12:35, archived)