The simple act of handing over a wooden paddle became a powerful symbol of the past meeting the present in Bulloch County ...

Actually, it doesn’t. The harsh teacher Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow spoke this popular misquotation of Proverbs 13:24. However, the assertion that a rod was just a ...

Holding a wooden paddle, Springfield school board member Steve Makoski urged a return to corporal punishment. "I would encourage board members to begin a dialogue — I brought a prop with me here — and ...

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Kayla Brady's son was in fifth grade when his elementary school principal smacked him with a paddle for, as she put it, "not minding the teacher." The incident left bright red marks on the boy's ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Corporal punishment is still legal in Tennessee schools. Usually, it’s performed with a paddle. “Corporal punishment has a time and place if it is administered properly, and ...

Last month, in my post Self-Confidence Vs. Self-Esteem, I wrote that I searched for the source of my introversion by mentally backtracking my childhood history. I noted that I was bullied in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Early on in his administrative career, ...

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 ...

As children all over the U.S. are heading back to the classroom, a Missouri school district and a North Carolina county are reinstating the use of corporal punishment. Nineteen states, including ...