“I never got whacked for not doing school work, it was for fighting”
They would put us up at the chalkboard, 1 at a time, and have an array of times tables to do. If you couldn’t do them, ya got whacked with the ruler. But we had these exact same problems in our previous homework, so the ones who got rapped were the ones who didn’t do the work.
Honestly, it wasn’t a big deal, it’s not like they were going to do much damage. And boys at that age were a handful,lol.