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I do spank my kids and I do not have a problem if they were to have received a paddle in school. I know they will probably never bring it back in schools, but I would vote that they could. Being a parent of two kids, I tell them that if a teacher tells them something, it would be like if I told it to them and they better listen unless it had something that they questioned as if the teacher would touch them inappropriately.
I know that everyone is frustrated these days and it does start with the parents.
My son got in trouble on the bus a few months back and got kicked off for a week. Someone on the bus twisted his arm back and hurt him so he retaliated and hit him with his book bag. I had no problem with him getting kicked off because the bus driver doesn't have time messing with kids when she needs to be focusing on the road. What I did have a problem with is that the school didn't call my wife or I to discuss it with us. They said they don't do that anymore because when it comes to the bus because they have had nothing, but argumentative parents. I did ground my son for two weeks for being disruptive on the bus even though I didn't agree with it because he was defending himself, but I want to support the school as much as I can, but I told them they need to call me regardless and they cannot assume that all parents are going to be argumentative with them.
We cannot be with our kids 24/7 and we cannot assume they are always going to do the right thing even though we want to believe in them, they will mess up. And we are not going to bring them up right if we always try to shelter them from dealing with the consequences if they do wrong because when they are of legal age, we will not be able to keep them out of jail if they do something against the law.