corporal punishment

The policy says corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline have failed and then only with the superintendent's permission. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.

House Bill 295 would change state law to prohibit public schools from using corporal punishment.

Researchers look at countries that have prohibited corporal punishment for kids and their rate of youth violence.

The use of corporal punishment is on the decline, but at one high school in N.C., the principal paddles his students himself.

In a society where black people have power, beating children and posting it on social media is just as much about performing respectability as it is punishing wrongdoing.