A motion to reinstate corporal punishment in Rapides Parish schools failed after a survey of principals revealed more than 70% opposed it. The school board previously banned corporal punishment in ...
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 ...
Tom Johnson is a Nashville-based delivery driver and vice president of Tennesseans for Nonviolent School Discipline. Re: "Corporal punishment is still a thing in Tennessee? Time to end it for our kids ...
Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) When children head to school each morning, they have a lot on ...
Corporal punishment in schools is legal in Texas. It’s also more common than you think. In the most recent year for which data is available, more than 1,000 Texas schools used corporal punishment as a ...
CASSVILLE, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) - A controversial school discipline method is returning to some schools in Missouri. Cassville R-IV School District Superintendent Dr. Merlyn Johnson said the policy ...
Regarding Joel Warsh’s Sept. 8 op-ed on the harmful effects of corporal punishment in schools, “Spanking harms children. Why do schools allow it?”: Shocking as it is, the pervasive persistence of ...