[Paleo Conservative]

Some of the parents deserve corporal punishment.

[Pontiac]

As for studies that show children who experience corporal punishment are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, Sprigg dismissed that as the difference between beating and discplinary spanking.

I dismiss it as Psychobabble BS.

Correlation does not equal causation.

It is just as possible that depressed kids are more likely to act up and be in need of corporal punishment.

[RIghtwardHo]

I would never give someone else the permission to hit my kid. Ever. Hit em, and I’ll hit you back.

[dalereed]

When I was in school, you screwed up and you got whipped!!

There are a lot of rug rodents in todays classes that desperatly need it!!!

[AKinAK]

How asinine is this ! Government employees are authorized to strike our children but a parent can be jailed and the child orphaned out for doing the same thing !!! THINK this through ! I personally don’t have a problem with delivery of an occasional swat to MY child’s butt but certainly don’t want a government employee authorized to do the same nor anyone else for that matter! Simply quarantine the child to the front office and call a parent to pick him/her up for a cooling off period of at least a day. Giving teachers (government employees) this much power allows them to teach in an adversarial atmosphere which terrorizes some kids and makes none safe regardless of their behavior. DO NOT give government employees the option to ‘teach’ with the fear of physical beatings hanging over a child’s head.