SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — This school year, Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this ...

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 ...

Ogun State Government has again sent a delegation to commiserate with the family of Monday Arijo, who died last Friday after being subjected to corporal punishment by a teacher at Obada Grammar School ...

Witnesses allege Arielle Everett forced her son to the ground and punched him. Everett says she fell while holding onto her ...

In 2025, it is unacceptable that we are still debating whether children with disabilities should be subjected to corporal punishment in Oklahoma schools. Senate Bill 364, which seeks to ban this ...

Senate Bill 364 targeting corporal punishment for students with disabilities passed the House on Wednesday, and now heads to the Governors desk for consideration before it can be signed into law.

Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by objects by adults charged with their education and care. While corporal ...

For decades, the use of corporal punishment in schools has been justified as a means of enforcing discipline. Yet mounting ...

March 16, 2012 — -- It is one of the most controversial methods of child discipline, but spanking in school-- usually with a wooden or fiberglass paddle -- is still allowed by law in 19 states.

Georgia county schools reactivate corporal punishment for misbehaving kids. July 23, 2008 — -- It may be a declining practice in American schools, frowned upon by most child psychologists, but ...