SCHOOLS are to punish students by smacking them with a wooden paddle in a bid to improve discipline. The move by a town’s school authorities has come in response to demands by parents, school staff ...

The practice of striking students in public schools has been banned in most states, but some still use corporal punishment as a form of discipline. Corporal punishment uses physical force to cause a ...

I do not understand the current-day animosity toward the use of a wooden paddle to instill discipline. Typically, in the first half of the 20th century, if a student found himself in trouble as a ...

Today’s students, teachers, and administrators would be amazed if they were transported back to Inland Empire schools in the good old days. Even as late as the 1950s, discipline often was applied ...