The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Council on School Health have issued an updated policy on corporal punishment, released Monday. The statement says spanking in schools should be ...

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 ...

Spanking or striking children in school, or corporal punishment, should be “abolished in all states by law,” according to an updated policy statement by the Council on School Health and released ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

~ The student's parent had filed a complaint alleging child abuse. A Scott City school administrator's paddling of a student on Nov. 11 followed school policy, Scott City school board members ...

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 ...

Corporal punishment is likely on its way out in Pinellas schools. Within two weeks, the results of a six-month local study of child discipline will be released, and it is expected to carry a heavy ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Some advocates for children are asking for 45 school districts in Kentucky to end the use of paddling as a punishment over concerns about excessive force and overuse on students ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Tennessee authorities have charged two elementary school employees after a student was allegedly paddled by a teacher. According to the Tennessee Bureau of ...