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 ...

It’s a form of discipline still used in some Florida schools – but two bills set to be introduced in the upcoming legislative session could change the rules regarding paddling. NBC affiliate WBBH-TV ...

To paddle or not to paddle, that was the question the Marion County School Board debated Thursday during a review of the 2010-11 Student Code of Conduct. After a long debate, it appears corporal ...

The practice of striking students in public schools has been banned in most states, but some still use corporal punishment as a form of discipline. Corporal punishment uses physical force to cause a ...

All but gone are the days when teachers kept paddles guaranteed to cause pain in their desk drawers. So, too, have gone the days when principals applied corporal punishment to the rear ends of ...

Georgia School for Innovation and Classics sent letters home to parents asking their permission to paddle their children, and about 100 parents have returned the forms, WRDW reported. "In this school, ...

SWAMPSCOTT — A Swampscott High student was disciplined for bringing a paddle onto school grounds, but administrators said rumors that a student was actually paddled as part of a first-day-of-school ...

I am dismayed at the level of interest and attention that has been directed toward the subject of corporal punishment at St. Augustine High School. As a graduate of Jesuit High School in the early ...