For a teacher the first line of defense IS the parents, or should be. Phone calls usually work.
If young Johnny has a parent or parents worthy of the name he doesn’t want his misbehavior getting back to his folks. If young Johnny has a pi$$-poor parent or parents they still don’t want the hassle.
Plus that way everything gets documented early on.
If Johnny keeps misbehaving his parents get called in. Generally this mostly happens with bad parents, and they hate that hassle and time out of their day even more than phone calls.
Mostly though you just want a negative consequence for the kid. Doesn’t have to be a big negative consequence, in fact it’s better if it ain’t. Detention for example, a half hour out of our day is nothing, at their age it’s hassle enough that it ain’t worth getting it.
Actually, the best teachers hardly ever have to send a kid to the office, their classroom is a place kids want to be.
Can’t imagine beating a high school kid would work, didn’t work with us as kids. After you’ve hit ‘em and they’ve shrugged it off, what then?
