Tennessean said:
To add to this post, would you allow your child to go to a school that practiced spanking?
If there were other viable options, no. But then again, my kids have never been in 'real' trouble in their public school.
My youngest son is a junior in our local junior high school and just last week, got his first ever detention (none of his siblings ever got a detention). Reason being, there was an outside classroom meeting and he forgot to sign in. Even though he was in the class, the administration said they deemed him as skipping it because his name/ID wasn't in the registry. He was frustrated by it but he knew the rule and I supported the school so to detention he went.
This school runs a very tight ship, even though it is a public school. The slightest bit of rowdiness at a basketball game, and the school officer bounces kids out. Bullying is absolutely not tolerated and first offense results in immediate suspension with no appeal. We are fortunate to live in a good school district with mostly honorable staff.
There are other means by which discipline can be successfully and effectively administered without spanking. If there is spanking that needs to be done, it should be left to the parents to do what is necessary. I would not allow any adult or authority figure to strike my child, even in the form of a spanking.