Could it be that we are ready to look again at discipline in schools, at what has been lost as well as gained since we banned the paddle? When I wrote about corporal punishment last week, I figured ...

Let's just say we've come a long way from the days in the early 1970s, when a junior high coach would occasionally stand at our locker room doorway, paddle in hand, half-jokingly, half-painfully ...

Gilbert Leal, who (… fondly?) remembers getting swats back at W.H. Gaston Middle School back in the day, wants to bring the paddle back to Dallas Independent School District, just like they’ve done ...

(GARY, Ind., January 24th, 2005, 9:55 a.m.)-- An elementary school basketball coach faces battery charges for allegedly paddling several of his 13-year-old players for poor shooting after a loss.