CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

If anybody should spank, it should only be the parents and/or the parent-appointed guardian (someone such as a grandparent to whom the parent has given both guardianship and the right to spank. Guardianship alone won't cut it). Teachers and principals get kids from all kinds of homes--and some of those homes are against physical discipline, so it would be traumatic for a child to go to school and get hit by an adult and be told that said adult and his peers have a right to do this. I've found that school discipline can also be very subjective with kids who might not be attractive to the teachers (e.g. overweight, different skin color)--or kids who are too attractive to the teachers (e.g. students of the same gender of the teachers who beat them out in the looks department and might cause some jealousy)--more likely to become the whipping child of a particular teacher. One important rule that gets taught to kids is, "Keep your hands to yourself!" So, perhaps, the teachers had better practice what they preach!

Corporal punishment is unacceptable and should be totally done away with.