DANDRIDGE (WATE) – Although corporal punishment in American schools has declined in recent decades, paddling is still on the books in several counties in East Tennessee. In school systems where it ...

Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal's office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher, of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work. Rules are rules ...

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA (KPLC) - For many of us, discipline in our formative years included a good swat on the behind, be it from the hand of a parent, a belt or a paddle. And that method of ...

JASPER COUNTY, GA (WFLA) – A Georgia elementary school principal insisted on paddling a five-year-old student – and told the boy’s mother that if she tried to intervene he would be suspended and she ...

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 ...

MONTICELLO, GA -- A 5-year-old was paddled by administrators at his school and his mother says she thought she had no choice but to let it happen. Thomas faced his punishment on Wednesday at Jasper ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

Kimberly Zacher gave permission for her daughter, Kaley, to be paddled twice at Southwest Laurents Elementary School, Ga. John Bazemore AP Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was ...

MONTICELLO, Ga. -- A 5-year-old was paddled by administrators at his school and his mother says she thought she had no choice but to let it happen. Thomas faced his punishment on Wednesday at Jasper ...

MONTICELLO, Ga. -- A 5-year-old was paddled by administrators at his school and his mother said she thought she had no choice but to let it happen. Thomas faced his punishment on Wednesday at Jasper ...