Basic Trope: Inflicting physical pain as punishment.
- Straight: Alice punishes students by whipping them.
- Exaggerated: Alice whips her students for just about every slight they do such as sneezing.
- Downplayed: Alice only uses corporal punishment when the ultimate line has been crossed, which may happen, alas.
- Justified:
- Alice feels it's the only way for students to learn how to behave.
- Alice is a Sadist Teacher who enjoys tormenting her students.
- Alice's students only listen when they're being whipped. Words and other punishments don't work with them.
- Sometimes, like with safety education, it's safer than learning from * experience.
- Inverted: Every attempt Alice makes to punish her students just results in her getting beaten up instead.
- Subverted: Alice and her students maintain an elaborate ruse that she tans their hides for every infraction, because the school board expects a teacher to be stern and harsh in order to "teach proper social values". In actuality, she'd never harm a hair on their heads.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice's last name is Punishment, and she is a corporal in the military. You do the math.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't use corporal punishment on her students.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "I don't think we'll misbehave around her again."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice, while strict, is against corporal punishment and only punishes children less severely.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice is criticized by parents who don't approve of her methods of discipline and point out how children are traumatized and are severely injured.
- Reconstructed: However, it turns out most of the students only play up the "trauma" part to get Alice fired so they can do the worst things again. Their parents figure it out and have a talk with Alice about when it's appropriate or not to use corporal punishment.
- Played For Drama: Alice catches Bob sleeping during class. She carries him and whips him so badly that he is crying in agony. The students are disturbed of this and are afraid of Alice.
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