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.
Let's use an example: My son was attacked by two students. The normal punishment is suspension but they couldn't suspend the children because the parents refused the suspension because they worked. They tried to take away their recess but the teachers didn't have anyone to watch them in the classroom. So they told the kids not to do it again and told my son to stay away from the kids. They attacked another student. Same treatment. The school has no real way of punishing kids. If you know any good methods, they would love to hear it.