An East Texas high school principal was arrested after he paddled a female student. Under the school district's guidelines, the Overton High School student and her family initially consented to the ...

COLLINS — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees the distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half is a section titled ...

A Missouri school district recently announced that it will be instituting corporal punishment option for students, but parents must approve of the disciplinary action. The Cassville School District ...

"The number one thing that's important is learning." Lora Evans, another leader in the local Parents for Public Schools chapter, whose son also once got the paddle years ago, was not bothered then but ...

School districts that paddle their students often give parents a choice, but might present suspension as the only other option. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

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 ...

A Fox News guest advocated for schools to institute corporal punishment, specifically the beating of children with paddles. Former NFL defensive back Jack Brewer joined Fox on Wednesday night and ...

Lamar said she was not notified by school officials that her son had received corporal punishment, and she only discovered the paddle marks when she gave the boy his nightly bath. In previous years, ...

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A high school principal in East Texas was arrested last week after paddling a student, causing her bodily injury and sparking national headlines that renewed the debate over whether corporal ...