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If that happened, I got yelled at or grounded.

I wouldn’t get a beating

If I wasn’t prepared to take the beating, I wouldn’t have gotten caught doing whatever would result in one.

Well if I’d probably tell the teacher whether i like the teacher or not. If i like them I’ll tell cause I’d be in a clear need for an adult figure to trust cause my parents are clearly failing to meet that role. If i don’t like them it could be a means to making them feel guilty. But if for whatever reason I didn’t, I would absolutely toss the letter, and would probably keep a lot more than that from my parents. They would have to make a profound and genuine effort to ever regain my trust again.

What letter?

as far as I know, unless it's a daily progress report, most letters are emailed or the teacher just calls them, because students lose everything. some teachers might send letter, none that I know though