When I had to walk through my sons middle school (that was 6 years ago) there were girls cussing up a storm in front of the dam principal, all she could tell them was, "girls watch your mouths we have visitors in the building'?????
WTF, I thought to myself, I'm 40, if those words echoed in the halls when I was in the 7th grade, you could bet my ass would be red from a paddling, AND when I got home. The kids in school now have no respect for the teachers, and Ryan its not just always "a few bad eggs"
When kids from the 1st grade know what they will get from the start if they act out of line, it keeps them in line, and makes the techers job that much easier. When Cam was in school, a "bad egg" acting up all the time took away from his learning time with all that go down to the office B.S.
Those that dont agree with paddling from what I can see of their ages, never had to deal with it.