This week the Springtown school board decided that it was kosher for school administrators to punish the body (that is, administer corporal punishment) of students of the opposite gender, but only if the parents gave written permission.
After decades of believing tough punishment holds students in line, can schools right the ship to keep more of their students academically afloat?
He opposed Europe, the abolition of capital punishment, drugs, students, pornography and pop music.
She was also responding to charges by the Office of Special Investigation that she mismanaged school funds and used corporal punishment on students, the official said.
Mr. Mills did not propose any retroactive punishment for students or school officials who may have played a role in the boycott in the spring.
A spokesman for the school system said Mr. Garabitos's service has included more than a dozen allegations of misconduct, mostly for corporal punishment of students.
When Tyler Anastopoulos got in trouble for skipping detention at his high school recently, he received the same punishment that students in parts of rural Texas have been getting for generations.
Although we no longer permit corporal punishment of students by teachers, our school system is allowed complete latitude to do the same intellectually to its best and brightest young students.
Japanese schools need to step up their measures to crack down on bullying and should rethink a decades-old ban on physical punishment for students, a government-appointed panel recommended.
The two watchdog groups that collaborated on the report, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, are urging federal and state lawmakers to extend the ban nationwide and enact an immediate moratorium on physical punishment of students with disabilities.
