The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Council on School Health have issued an updated policy on corporal punishment, released Monday. The statement says spanking in schools should be ...

Support is needed for an Oklahoma Senate bill that would ban corporal punishment for disabled children - a practice not shown ...

Critics argued that corporal punishment has proved ineffective in putting pupils in check. In most cases, it resulted in injuries and avoidable deaths. They reckoned that beyond arrests, issuance of ...

Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the Cassville school superintendent job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment — a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district ...

In Cassville, a group of students are gearing up to fight the southwest Missouri district's return to corporal punishment. Kalia Miller and Gabe Moore, seniors at Cassville High School, said they were ...