Corporal punishment is still legal in Texas schools. Let that sink in. Yes, corporal punishment still happens in Texas schools. Adults in school districts with corporal punishment policies can spank, ...

Steve Chapman writes for the Chicago Tribune as well as being a syndicated columnist. Some parents don’t trust public school teachers to handle such topics as racism, sexuality and climate change. But ...

Witnesses allege Arielle Everett forced her son to the ground and punched him. Everett says she fell while holding onto her ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against schoolchildren does not violate the Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that constitutional ...

In 2025, it is unacceptable that we are still debating whether children with disabilities should be subjected to corporal punishment in Oklahoma schools. Senate Bill 364, which seeks to ban this ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The continuing use of corporal punishment in Oklahoma schools was debated at the Capitol on Monday. The Rules Committee of the House of Representatives hosted an interim study on the ...

In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have banned the practice in classrooms, Alabama law allows corporal ...

March 16, 2012 — -- It is one of the most controversial methods of child discipline, but spanking in school-- usually with a wooden or fiberglass paddle -- is still allowed by law in 19 states.

Georgia county schools reactivate corporal punishment for misbehaving kids. July 23, 2008 — -- It may be a declining practice in American schools, frowned upon by most child psychologists, but ...