Education Secretary John B. King Jr. released a letter Tuesday urging school leaders and state governments to end practices incorporating corporal punishment.
A Florida dad wanted to make sure that he stayed within the dictates of the law when it comes to corporal punishment so he called police to his home to supervise the paddling of his 12 year old daughter.
Springtown (Texas) High School sophomore Taylor Santos had a difficult decision to make after her teacher determined that she allowed a classmate to copy her work: she could either serve two days of in-school suspension, or get paddled.