Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saskatoon author and academic Ailsa Watkinson with her new book Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment (University ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against schoolchildren does not violate the Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that constitutional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by ...

Legislation recently approved by the Illinois House of Representatives prohibiting the use of corporal punishment in private schools would have little effect in the suburbs since the majority of ...

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 ...

A jury on Thursday acquitted Marty Small Sr. of all four crimes he was charged with, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his teenage daughter. By Tracey Tully Mehdi Yarrahi, a ...

Two Middle Tennessee educators are facing assault charges after paddling a student last month, shining new light on the controversial topic of corporal punishment. Jackson Patterson, 39, and Tena Lynn ...

The state Office of Children and Family Services suspended the license of Maple Leaf Childcare Center on Route 9 in Malta earlier in May. A Saratoga County day care had its license suspended last ...