SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “Why don’t we engage? Why don’t we have even the public engagement? You know, I don’t see anything wrong with that.” That’s the question SPS board member Steve Makoski asked ...

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.

The school setting, which parents, caregivers and students hope to be one of safety, continues to evoke fear in many. With school shootings becoming more frequent each year, children have the added ...

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 ...

A Missouri school district has authorized the use of corporal punishment as a "last resort" in order to discipline students. Cassville R-IV School District, located in southwest Missouri, issued a new ...

Early on in his administrative career, longtime Missouri educator Chris Belcher had what he called the worst experience of his life. “The kid screamed, and I felt awful,” he said. He didn’t want to do ...

Though the method has fallen out of favor since the late 1970s, school corporal punishment as of six years ago was legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children are subject to the punishment each year ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Florida has changed how corporal punishment can be used in its public ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S.

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 ...

Pieter Groenewald’s suggestion to reintegrate corporal punishment into the system has been shot down by the Minister of Education, Siviwe Gwarube. The Minister of Correctional Services made the ...