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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 ...

As a rookie teacher, Rick Spurling remembers his principal encouraging him to paddle students to get his classroom under control. Thirty years later, as superintendent of Mitchell County Schools, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Corporal punishment is still legal in Tennessee schools. Usually, it’s performed with a paddle. “Corporal punishment has a time and place if it is administered properly, and ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- It's a rarely used last resort, school system officials in the Birmingham area said, but corporal punishment is still the policy in many systems. The practice received national ...

ATLANTA — Many child psychologists have been arguing for years that spanking is bad for children. Now research is backing up that assertion, finding that it tends to makes kids more likely to act up ...

MONTICELLO, Ga. -- A mother of two is accusing school administrators of abusing her five-year-old son after they used a paddle to discipline him on Wednesday. Shana Marie Perez, posted video on her ...

This article was originally published in Missouri Independent. Early on in his administrative career, longtime Missouri educator Chris Belcher had what he called the worst experience of his life. “The ...