Pretty much everything under the sun has been tried.
In the olden days, corporal punishment seems to have been the approach de rigueur.
“Full of blows” was how celebrated Roman poet Horace described his teacher.
“Racks, claws, and various instruments of torture” were the tools of discipline used to straighten out a young and rebellious, not-yet-saintly St. Augustine.
Rulers applied to the knuckles with startling force at the hands of an old nun were my father’s sharpest school-day recollections.
In recent decades, a bevy of newer, spare-the-rod-inspired approaches has come about—ranging from sparkly sticker rewards to punishingly ponderous detentions.
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