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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holding a wooden paddle, Springfield school board member Steve Makoski urged a return to corporal punishment. "I would encourage board members to begin a dialogue — I brought a prop with me here — and ...

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 ...

Parents of students attending the Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics received a surprising addition to the new school year stack of paperwork: the public charter school in Hephzibah, ...

MONTICELLO, Ga. -- A 5-year-old was paddled by administrators at his school and his mother says she thought she had no choice but to let it happen. Thomas faced his punishment on Wednesday at Jasper ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A school district in Missouri announced it will reinstate spanking this school year – but with a parental caveat. Cassville School School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson said ...

Arkansas Public Media reports on corporal punishment in Arkansas: Choosing the preferred instrument of pain as well as number of strokes against the bottoms of unruly public school students remains ...