We still had corporal punishment at school when I was a kid....
In Scottish schools they used "the belt" more correctly called a tawse...
A leather strap with 2 or more "tails" on it..
You'd get hit on the hands with it alternating between hands, supporting the hand to be struck with the other.
If a teacher knew how to use it.. the fucker stung like hell.
(We had a teacher who was crap at giving it and deliberately wound her up so she'd give out the belt, until she wised up to what we were doing and got the deputy head to deal with us)
A few years after I left school, corporal punishment in schools was banned in the UK..
And frankly, schoolkids became far more unruly...
Educational standards have dropped...
Interestingly, the child who's mother took the issue to the European coursts (because her precious Danny was a GOOD BOY HAHAHA) came from Clydebank, and has spent much of his adult life in police custody.