Common or NOT Common

Sense that is. After reading this story I'm not sure if it's common at all. Without getting into a whole thing about if this kid needed to have the shit whipped out of him or not, I'm fairly certain 2 grown men could have restrained this child without slapping him in the face or using a stun gun. I have little doubt that there will be a lawsuit, maybe deservedly, but what happened to the days when whomever was watching you had the right to beat your ass if the situation so called for it. It was a transfer of the iron fist. I guess the problem is that people have no common sense to gauge a situation and act accordingly. I would want my child to be disciplined accordingly to the behavior but I'm not sure I would trust a day care to make the decision to what is "accordingly." So while I miss the way things used to be when I was a kid or at least the way things were for me as a kid, it probably just doesn't make sense in todays world. So the question is...Do adult men with expert training in self-defense need to be told not to use a stun gun on a 94 pound child?