I'm glad you all live in bucolic places. In many school districts today, there are children being raised by incompetent parents, who send wildly defiant kids to school where no one is allowed to touch them. The endgame in some of these schools is nobody learns anything and the teachers are subject to assault. The problem kids have no respect for authority and no fear of anything, because they know teacher and administrator hands are tied, the only effective 'punishment' they may dole out is suspension, which to a child = get out of school free day. When they return after their vacation, they again render the classrooms zoos where the kids who are willing to learn can't. There are worse things than a child getting spanked, there is raising criminals unchecked.