For families in parts of the United States where schools still use corporal punishment, disciplinary decisions can involve choices that carry consequences well beyond the classroom. That was the ...

Corporal punishment may still be legal in Texas schools, but several San Antonio-area districts say paddling, spanking and other forms of physical discipline have no place in their classrooms.

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 ...

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Corporal punishment is still legal in public schools in 16 states. In Texas, a principal was arrested after hitting a child with a wooden paddle. He's now back on the job. The community supports him.

One day, about eight years ago, when Tessa Davis' son was in kindergarten, she got a call from his school outside Little Rock, Ark. She said the school told her he had grabbed a girl's jacket in the ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS - As a high-school student in the mid-1960s, Greg Aymond occasionally saw an angry teacher cuff a student. It never happened to him, nor does the memory of faculty discipline in those days ...

Corporal punishment is still legal in Georgia public schools, though the decision to allow it is left up to local school districts. Under Georgia law, local boards of education can authorize corporal ...