I believe in corporal punishment, I have lived in Columbus County all my life and I have 2 boys in school now and 1 boy that has graduated. I feel they should leave the corporal punishment in schools because it helps. I work in the school system and I am here to tell you that if some parents dont believe in the schools giving corporal punishment then these parents need to come and set in the school and observe some of the behaviours that are going on with these kids, from assaulting and trying to fight teachers, to just totally distrubting class, and if you really want to know how bad some of the behaviours are then just go to court and sit in on juvenile court sometimes and listen to the charges that are brought by the SRO's and you will look at corporal punishment differently. Granted some students dont fall within these guidelines, we have alot of great students, but it is because we have parents at home that have taught them that you respect people, and when asked to do something by a teacher or and adult you answer with yes mam or no mam, but some parents dont care about there kids actions and therefore that is the ones that end up in our court systems or have so many days out of school that they fail there grade, I dont know about you but I would rather my kid get a paddling and go back to class than to miss days in school and fall behind and fail there grade. What it all comes down to is if you dont want your child to have corporal punishment then sign the paper at the beginning of the school year and sent it back where your child will not recieve the paddling, because some parents want to keep the corporal punishment in the schools.