FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. – George Gainer professes to be something of an expert in the matter of corporal punishment. "I got my butt beat about every 15 minutes coming up," he said. Gainer was raised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

Did you grow up in a school that allowed paddling? Maybe you knew someone who was hit in school – or maybe the idea of corporal punishment seems as antiquated as ink wells. This year marks the 20th ...

None — In North Carolina, it is illegal to hit an inmate, but every day in the state's public schools children are paddled. North Carolina is one of 19 states that still allow corporal punishment to ...

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Holding a wooden paddle, Springfield school board member Steve Makoski urged a return to corporal punishment. "I would encourage board members to begin a dialogue — I brought a prop with me here — and ...

Corporal punishment should be relegated to the past. The recent arrest of a high school principal who paddled a student for a disciplinary infraction shows it remains a stubborn part of Texas' present ...

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Paddling in schools is a stalwart tradition in some parts of Alabama along with Arkansas and Mississippi, the three states that hit the most students nationwide. Yet this year, those other two states ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Getting hit or facing a paddle as punishment is a practice a lot of people might remember from decades ago in grade school, but for some Kentucky students, it's still ...