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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Missouri school district recently announced that it will be instituting corporal punishment option for students, but parents must approve of the disciplinary action. The Cassville School District ...

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 ...

A Missouri school district has gained national attention and prompted protests among its high school students after announcing it was bringing back "corporal punishment," including spanking and ...

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 ...

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 ...