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 ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

A grainy video clip doing the rounds on social media shows a student being manhandled by a group of teachers. What is administered to him is not the customary six of the best on his backside but a ...

Until the late 1980s, it was common for students to be spanked when they misbehaved in school. This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is when a ...

Colorado could be on the brink of doing something nearly two dozen states have yet to do: outlaw corporal punishment in schools. “I thought this was already done. I did not realize this was still a ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

Does your school district or state permit the use of corporal punishment? Here are ten steps you can take against corporal punishment. 1. Write to your Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and ask for a ...

The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools. By Brian M. Rosenthal and Eliza Shapiro New ...

ALBANY — A bill to ban corporal punishment in all schools statewide became law this week with a signature from Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law prohibits teachers, administrators, officers, employees or ...

While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, a number still allow it in schools, predominantly those in the Southeast. In some states, while inflicting ...