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.

For Johnson, the paddle remains central to her discipline policy. “Sometimes I feel like that’s all the child needs,” she said.

Old-school discipline is finding its way back into the classroom for some schools in Missouri. The Cassville School District in southern Missouri will reinstate corporal punishment through the use ...

While varying methods of punishment are practiced at every Southeast Texas school, the paddle still used. Parents are generally notified before corporal punishment is used on their child.

A charter school in Georgia sent out consent forms to parents informing them about a corporal punishment that would allow the school to paddle students. Jody Boulineau, superintendent of Georgia ...

Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission ...

In Holmes County, where 99 percent of the public school children are black, students say corporal punishment traditionally starts at daycare and Head Start centers, where teachers rap preschool-age ...

While corporal punishment has been stamped out across most of the US, some schools use it routinely – and pressure parents to choose it over suspension.

Could it be that we are ready to look again at discipline in schools, at what has been lost as well as gained since we banned the paddle?

Cassville School District in Southern Missouri is bringing back corporal punishment under a new policy that allows students to be punished with a paddle. Administrators say it would be the last res… ...

Cassville School District in Southern Missouri is bringing back corporal punishment under a new policy that allows students to be punished with a paddle. Administrators say it would be the last res… ...