A school district in Missouri is reportedly reinstating corporal punishment under a new policy, which will be used as a last resort and with permission from parents after many expressed a desire for ...

New Jersey became the first state to ban corporal punishment but a Missouri school district plans on reviving such disciplinary measures. Cassville, a school district in southwest Missouri, plans to ...

An East Texas high school principal was arrested after he paddled a female student. Under the school district's guidelines, the Overton High School student and her family initially consented to the ...

Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) When children head to school each morning, they have a lot on ...

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 ...

CLEWISTON, Fla. (NewsNation Now) — Police are investigating after a principal initiated corporal punishment by paddling right in front of a little girl’s mother. Brent Probinsky, the mother’s lawyer, ...

All seven candidates running for the Springfield school board, including three incumbents, say they actively oppose a return to corporal punishment. Only one candidate suggested the idea floated by ...

HEIDELBERG, Miss. (WDAM/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A third grade student's arm was broken by corporal punishment from a school staff member, a paddling, that the child's mother gave permission for. The ...

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 ...