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—usually referring to adults hitting children—was abolished in South Africa in 1997. The Constitutional Court had already ruled it incompatible with the bill of rights in 1995. In ...
The persistence of corporal punishment in classrooms, despite legal and policy prohibitions, is a troubling reminder of a ...
North Carolina is one of 19 states that still allow paddling in schools. There's no law against it, but the debate and the divide centers around whether or not it's effective. Like many parents, Daisy ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — State lawmakers are hoping to end spanking and paddling in the classroom. Both are still legal in the state of Tennessee. Back in the fall, the Tennessee Bureau of ...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has said a loving approach to discipline misbehaving children is to “beat them in a circle,” but his campaign won’t say if he thinks schools should bring back corporal ...