[AppyPappy]

Why is paddling worse than sending a child home so that his mother loses her income to keep him at home and he gets behind in school? Is expelling a child better than paddling them?

You are gagging on a gnat and swallowing a camel.

[Protagoras]

Why is paddling worse than sending a child home so that his mother loses her income to keep him at home and he gets behind in school? Is expelling a child better than paddling them?

Private education would make this a mute point. Each parent gets to make the choice of how their children are educated in a free society.

I choose to have other things happen which do not involve physical touching on my children. You are free to choose otherwise.

Perhaps you would like a system which would allow parents in government schools the ability to formally cede their parental rights to physical punishment to government employees on a person by person basis. Merely speculation.

You are gagging on a gnat and swallowing a camel.

I have no idea what this phrase means.