The parent should have taken his child home, as for spanking the child, I think spankings are frequently deserved but, the gov't, in their 'infinite wisdom', (show tongue firmly in cheek, there,) has decided that they know more about child rearing than the parents.
Well, sorry, but it just isn't so... We have shootings in schools and malls, and random murders by snipers, and I blame it on the lax discipline enforced on parents by the sorry gov't that wants to take over our lives, while doing nothing for us.
When this nation falls, it will be because of such mess as this.
Give us back our country, give us back God, return the illegals to their countries of origin, and let America return to being great...