A motion to bring back corporal punishment in Rapides Parish schools died Tuesday after School Board members saw what ...

Although Pieter Groenwald did not specifically indicate that corporal punishment should be reintegrated into schools, Minister of Education Siviwe Gwarube has already firmly rejected the idea. She ...

The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools.

Parenting is a journey filled with choices, and one of the most contentious decisions that Black parents face is whether to use corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure for their children ...

Shocking as it is, the pervasive persistence of corporal punishment ought not surprise anyone. There is no human society on this planet that does not engage in some form of punishment; the reward ...

Mention of corporal punishment in its student handbook, though it hasn't been used in decades, triggered a parent debate at the district.

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 ...

I have researched “Corporal Punishment and Children” in the National Library of Medicine. I found over 600 articles that discuss this topic, and none of the ones that I reviewed was positive.

Today, 17 states technically allow corporal punishment in all schools, although four prohibit its use on students with disabilities.

It showed states that have banned corporal punishment in schools and those where it’s still allowed. And Colorado was in the second category.

Physical punishment of children is a harmful and ineffective practice that should be prohibited in all settings, and parents should be provided with support and education to promote non-violent dis… ...

Corporal punishment had been in a slow decline before the pandemic, but remains legal in 19 states, mostly in the South. The practice makes children more aggressive and disruptive, researchers say.