When I was in elementary school, more than a few teachers used humiliation and mockery as disciplinary tools. But beyond a certain point, they dared not go.
Now they go beyond it with impunity.
My school days left me with the conviction that “authority” was arbitrary, capricious, and stupid–and cruel, too, if they could get away with it.
Our friend Re-Farmer says the “educators” believe your children are a form of property–property which they should own instead of you. I think she has something there.