Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

The school setting, which parents, caregivers and students hope to be one of safety, continues to evoke fear in many. With school shootings becoming more frequent each year, children have the added ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

One of the main arguments against corporal punishment is that it sends the wrong message, which is that it is permissible to solve our problems with violence. In a previous post, I considered other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have ...

Carter, Greene, Hawkins, Johnson and Washington counties are among 76 out of 138 school districts that said they still use corporal punishment, which is routinely administered with a paddle. Most ...

ATLANTA — Corporal punishment in schools is controversial but legal in the United States, and Congressional proposals to ban the practice have gone nowhere. Parents are putting away the belts and ...

It seems like a scene from Oliver Twist — a young pupil being beaten by a 300-lb man wielding an inch-thick wooden paddle — but according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil ...

Colorado could be on the brink of doing something nearly two dozen states have yet to do: outlaw corporal punishment in schools. “I thought this was already done. I did not realize this was still a ...

TALLAHASSEE — A proposal that would require parents to “opt-in” for students to receive corporal punishment in schools got initial approval Wednesday from a House panel, with some of the bill’s ...