COLLINS — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees the distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half is a section titled ...

It’s a form of discipline still used in some Florida schools – but two bills set to be introduced in the upcoming legislative session could change the rules regarding paddling. NBC affiliate WBBH-TV ...

The practice of striking students in public schools has been banned in most states, but some still use corporal punishment as a form of discipline. Corporal punishment uses physical force to cause a ...

LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Juries will have to decide whether two men went too far in their alleged acts of disciplining children in separate cases filed in LaPorte Circuit Court. 34-year-old Caleb ...

Until the late 1980s, it was common for students to be spanked when they misbehaved in school. This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is when a ...

Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have ...

Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the Cassville school superintendent job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment — a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district ...

I am dismayed at the level of interest and attention that has been directed toward the subject of corporal punishment at St. Augustine High School. As a graduate of Jesuit High School in the early ...