I agree.
All I'm saying is that there are some folks who get out of control and cross a line and shouldn't be around children.
In my personal experience, brutalizing and beating has the opposite effect in the long run. Instead of respecting authority, you see it as the enemy.
It sounds like the boy in this story had been encouraged by his parents to be disruptive in school. However, I think spanking a boy that age is foolish. Suspension, if his behavior was bad enough, would be more likely to get his parents' attention.
My rules are that children should not be spanked if the parent isn't in control. Spanking in anger, or fear( and it's probably happened with most of us) is not teaching.