SOP around here used to be swats in the hallway.
/johnny
Butt if the facts of the story are true, she actually wasn't the one cheating and she said that she did not let the other person copy her paper. So her guilt is tenable imho.
Be that as it may, she got a two day suspension and then served half of it -- one day -- and then consented to whacks [she said by a female] for the day not served. She would rather have had whacks than miss another day of school. That is admirable imho.
Any whacks he administered should have been atleast half of "normal" and commensurate with the mitigating facts. Yet he gave her the "normal" whacks with the "normal" redness -- wth for.
The guy needs to be fired at the least for his perverted sense of justice if not for what is a borderline sex act.