Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by ...

It’s extremely embarrassing that we still allow our disabled children to be spanked, hit and paddled at school. No child should have to deal with that, but it’s truly terrible that we can’t even agree ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against school children does not violate the federal Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

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 ...

Pieter Groenewald’s suggestion to reintegrate corporal punishment into the system has been shot down by the Minister of Education, Siviwe Gwarube. The Minister of Correctional Services made the ...

The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were allegedly acting out, and spanked them. Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew ...