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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Paddling students is legal in Tennessee public schools, but it’s led to criminal charges in Middle Tennessee. This case comes from Dodson Branch Elementary School. According ...

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 ...

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. While ...

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 ...

An Oklahoma Republican state lawmaker, psychologist, and self-described “mental health expert and foremost authority on classroom management and discipline,” on Tuesday argued against legislation that ...

It's a violation of New York state education regulations to subject children attending public and charter schools to corporal punishment. And under federal regulations, schools are supposed to report ...

While corporal punishment was outlawed in 1985, it turns out some teachers in New York have not been sparing the rod. A teacher last year smacked a student with a yardstick after pushing his head onto ...

While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, a number still allow it in schools, predominantly those in the Southeast. In some states, while inflicting ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — This school year, Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this ...

Authorities in the federal capital have resolved to take firm action against the corporal punishment of children in educational institutions, declaring it a punishable offence across all government, ...