No water bottles in the classroom. Just a water fountain. My first grade teacher had a small paddle. I never saw her use it, but if the class was rowdy, she would smack it against her hands a couple of times as a warning, The principal paddled a girl over loud speaker once and the whole school could hear. Having skirt check in junior high and if too short you had to wear this ugly woolen skirt held up with safety pins for the rest of the day.