5th grade teacher was hitting me and my classmates with pool's stick.

violance is more and more commmon nowadays. it's sad that this happened to you. i also know a simmilar case. a drawings teacher made some of their students drink the filthy water the children used to draw, just because she got mad about a phone call

Teachers have been using corporal punishments since long. I remember my friend started bleeding from nose after a teacher slapped him. There are many other instances. I do know sometimes children do need to be controlled but i dont think hitting is a way to get acheive it. Ive read rports in newspapers about teaches pnching students, Ive seen students being made to wipe out the whole blackboard with their nose with their hand tied behind their back .. and many other such things. Maybe they get a sense of superiority by hitting children. I dont know why someone would do it, maybe they do it because students cannot hit them back there so ther are free to do whatever they want ?? ..I do know however, that such teachers should be expelled from school and their teaching licenses being cancelled.