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I remember my grandfather and father and aunt telling me stories about harsh discipline and violence against students by faculty and teachers in the schools of Reza Shah and his son. The Reza shah schools even used falakeh, cut boys hair very short and required uniforms. The shah era school were less violent but teachers still hit and humiliated students in elementary and middle school levels, though the abuse against high schoolers were more verbal and not so physical as teenage boys would probably hit back the teachers. Even American schools routinely used paddles in elementary schools into the 80s. I imagine the IRI schools are much softer because the people are much softer and less violent toward their kids than in the previous generations. My grandfather spent his early elementary school years in a Qajar style maktab, but his middle and high school years were the Reza Shah schools and the violence from teachers was still the same. People were just more rough and mean back then...