Until recently, I had assumed that corporal punishment in schools was a thing of the past, a practice relegated to the dustbin of history by a more enlightened modern culture that views the “spare the ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against school children does not violate the federal Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that ...

BARTOW — There is no spanking or paddling in Polk County Public Schools, nor in many private schools in the area. The “no corporal punishment” policy was officially adopted in PCPS in 2013, according ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

The recent arrest of an East Texas high school principal who paddled a student for a disciplinary infraction has renewed a debate over the use or misuse of corporal punishment in schools. Most school ...

“Anyone who has had any experience of children, knows that the only way to deal with a refractory girl (no matter how old she is) is by a sound spanking. I have seen my own sisters beaten by every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after moving to Madison, Jamie Bardwell learned that the Madison County School District requires parents to opt out in ...

While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, a number still allow it in schools, predominantly those in the Southeast. In some states, while inflicting ...

TALLAHASSEE — A proposal that would require parents to “opt-in” for students to receive corporal punishment in schools got initial approval Wednesday from a House panel, with some of the bill’s ...