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 ...

An April 15, 1999 file photo, shows Pedro Maldonado, 13, a 6th-grader with his mother Ruth Maldonado in front of Bowie Junior High, now Bowie Middle School, in Irving. Pedro was paddled three times by ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems like a scene from Oliver Twist — a young pupil being beaten by a 300-lb man wielding an inch-thick wooden paddle — but according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil ...

Apparently we’re back in the 19th century, because corporal punishment is still a thing and teachers haven’t stopped inflicting physical punishments on their students. A disturbing new school policy ...

"The number one thing that's important is learning." Lora Evans, another leader in the local Parents for Public Schools chapter, whose son also once got the paddle years ago, was not bothered then but ...