CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS were legally entitled to physically punish pupils in accordance with laws which authorised corporal punishment, but the regulations governing the schools ...

In the parenting class she teaches, Christina Dalpiaz likes to get right to the point: “You all know how to hit. I’m going to teach you some other skills.” The family therapist counsels all sorts of ...

The Fijian Teachers Association is advocating for "leather belt" discipline, but the government emphasises its zero-tolerance ...

It was a one-room class with 25 children in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick and the school board chairman had instructed her to give the boy "a good strapping" for missing school. She ...

The couple discuss black tradition's use of the strap in child discipline. Nov. 9, 2010 — -- In a startlingly frank discussion with Oprah Winfrey on her show, the parents of the late Michael ...

MINNEDOSA, Man. -- A man who is an Old Order Mennonite has been given six months in jail for his part in the physical and psychological abuse of children in a Manitoba horse-and-buggy community. The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HEALTH Minister Tony Abbott has sparked a fiery debate on restoring corporal punishment in schools, declaring that "as our teachers get ...

Today's teenagers don't always get the best of press - but surely that has often been the case over the decades. Forty-five years ago, the Chronicle was reporting how hundreds of youngsters went on ...

At least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown’s Schooldays: the tradition of “six of the best” for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still ...

Adam Rundle, 28, was on leave at his parents' home when terrified neighbour Ross Goodwin, 21, rang for help after an intruder broke into his house. Without hesitation, the strapping corporal - who has ...