Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Council on School Health have issued an updated policy on corporal punishment, ...

A new debate over corporal punishment in public schools has been brewing since a video of a Georgia 6-year-old being paddled went viral. The video below, shows Shana Perez's son begin taken to the ...

Re: "Corporal punishment is still a thing in Tennessee? Time to end it for our kids' sake," by David Plazas, Nov. 16. Many are shocked to learn that corporal punishment is still legal and widely ...

President Biden's secretary of education released a letter calling for the end of all corporal punishment in U.S. schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent the "dear colleague" letter ...

In more than 15 states across the country, paddling is still an option for student discipline in schools, the Washington Post reports. Primarily in the South, children can receive paddling, or ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Two Texas mothers set off a firestorm recently when they complained that a male ...

It was spring when Joshua Watson, a sixth-grader at Alvarado Intermediate School in Alvarado, Texas, had an unsettling decision to make -- whether to accept a five-day in-school suspension or be ...

Corporal punishment will no longer be used on students for misbehavior in St. Landry Parish after the school board voted unanimously to abolish it Thursday. “We are no longer going to use corporal ...

Students returning to classes this fall in the Ozarks town of Cassville, Missouri, may be on better behavior than usual. That’s because the local school board has reinstated corporal punishment, ...

In 2017, when Kentuckian Alex Young began a campaign as a middle school student to stop corporal punishment in the state’s public schools, he said there were hundreds of incidents annually. Young said ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Tennessee authorities have charged two elementary school employees after a student was allegedly paddled by a teacher. According to the Tennessee Bureau of ...

Corporal punishment should be relegated to the past. The recent arrest of a high school principal who paddled a student for a disciplinary infraction shows it remains a stubborn part of Texas' present ...