And what about the parents who DON'T agree with corporal punishment in their schools? Do their kids get hit as well? Justifying this with Bible verses!
At about 1:40 he brings impaired into the mix of who can be hit, because not hitting them implies that we don't love them!
Spanking is not always a form of child abuse. That claim comes from a one size fits all mentality. Spanking can be taken too far, but it can also be useful to children with compulsive and attention deficit disorders. This can be much healthier and safer than drugs.
A quick open hand slap to the leg, can occur as fast the brief attention span of the most deficit children. They can process this, since it is within their attention range. It does not have to break bones, but just enough pain to change the focus, at the violation. Cause, effect, cause.
A long winded time out; 1 hour, for a child that can only focus for 2 seconds, will never work. This is how you train little monsters. Their mind will wonder after a minute, and then forget the original crime. They may learn to accept the time out, as justification to be mean in the future. To much time to reverse engineer. A controlled spanking would make the original violation; cause and effect, conscious. Then it is done. They can go back to play, learning to censor this exact behavior, with possible future quick lessons; pending.
The problem is many parents have monster kids they cannot control. Maybe the parents need to be spanked for their child's bad behavior. I do not mean in an abusive way. But this way we can avoid all concerns of child abuse and still get the job done. This is a liberal problem now covered up with drugs. Out of sight out of mind. Spanking parents would make it come back to mind for real change.
What gave spanking a bad name, was caused by adults taking out their adult frustrations on children. The spanking became more of an adult release of pressure and stress, and less about constructive attention and impulse control and direction for children. A teacher with a class full of monsters could get angry on some days, and over spank; enough for all, targeted at one. This is where the teacher would be better off going to the parents house and see if they can benefit by a spanking; spank the monster creator. Then it is not child abuse.