The "board of education was applied to the "seat of the problem" a couple times when I was in grade school but I was never struck in the face.

Students aren't anywhere near the same level of discipline, respect for authority or self control that was common with previous generations....

I understand the frustration a teacher can have but smack a kid and bloody a nose, you're done.

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen