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I agree with Words Of Wisdom, it is completely up to the parents to manage things like this, of course my parents did such a good job disciplining me that I was taken aback the first time I heard that a teacher can PADDLE (physically injure) a child that is not their biological offspring. Don't get my wrong, I got hit with a yardstick if I misbehaved, or I had to "sit on the chair" (time out?). But I've never felt that anyone one should strike a child for discipline sake if they are not a legal guardian of that child. If I was a kid and a clerk said "I can't sell you this game you got a C in gym." My parents would have escorted me out (probably gone back in and told the guy to F off. Then we'd go somewhere else to buy the game, and we (my parents and I) would have a discussion about how wrong it is for someone to do something like that.