Roughhousing certainly has its place in American high schools, but it doesn’t compare to Thai high schools. Thai students incessantly smack one another on the back of the head. Seriously, they do it all the time. Though I admit it’s funny when one of my students won’t shut up and another student knocks the incessant yapper on the side of the head, as if doing it on my behalf.
Many of my Thai co-teachers will actually smack a student as a punishment for smacking another student. A teacher would get canned in a heartbeat if they tried that in an American high school! That’s a shame, because I can think of a few of my high school friends who definitely deserved a few smacks in the face.