A paddling is no big deal except to the kids who know they might get one. I would rather a child be paddled then sent home to an empty house where he can watch TV all day. Some punishment.
You don't get to make that choice for other people's children.
You're not at home in the evening to discipline your child if need be?
And many parents will not discipline their children and MY kids have to live with the little terrors.
No, many parents will not discipline their children but you do not have the right to tell parents to accept someone other than themselves hitting their children. What you do have the right to do is remove your child and place him or her in a private school if the school where you child attends does not adequately handle behavioral problems with its students.
I would rather a child be paddled then sent home to an empty house where he can watch TV all day. Some punishment.
Why the jump from being whacked by a stranger to virtually no punishment at all in an empty home? Are you saying the only alternative to not hitting a student is to send them home to a house with no parent in it? That makes no sense.
If a government school teacher has the authority to hit your child, then an IRS agent has the authority to beat the hell you. They are both government agents. No difference.