You are absolutely correct - I do not know the people to which you refer.
However to say that they went to a school with corporal punishmentnet turned
them from bright confident children into adults having had the confidence
knocked out of them suggests they were bullied rather fhan suffered from the
occasional cane or slipper for some minor lapse in their normally impeccable
behaviour.
Nothing you say applies to the person that was highest in my mind when I
wrote that comment. But you are not going to believe anything I say, so I
see no point in continuing this.