If a teacher were to hit a student, what ever grade, the teacher would be fired, and charged with physical assault. If a parent was seen spanking there child in public, more then likely a call would be made to Child and Family Service. Spanking is no longer excepted here. Who decides what appropriate is? The angry adult? How hard? When does it become abuse?

As a former social worker, threats of spanking and spanking for discipline tend not to work. Appropriate punishment for the crime takes more work then a quick spank, but tends to have more of a lasting effect. I personally feel that there are always an option to spanking.

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