A video showing a principal paddling a kindergartner goes viral and sparks discussions about corporal punishment. The child's mother said the principal coerced her into granting permission for the spanking. She feared being sent back to jail for truancy.
A substitute teacher at a middle school in Prince Georges County, Maryland is being investigated on charges of disciplining students with a belt last week,…
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three (including an 8-year-old boy) and injured over 250 people.…
If you’ve been watching NBC’s new show, The Slap, you’ve probably got an opinion on the central question in the show’s premise: is it okay…
No stranger to controversial statements, NBA Hall of Famer turned sports commentator, Charles Barkley, blamed stagnation in the Black community on “brainwashed” Black people too…
A Florida woman beat her son with a computer cable for using Facebook, police said. Althea Ricketts, 62, struck her son several times at their home in Apopka, a city just north of Orlando, causing welts on the child’s arms, according to The Orlando Sentinel newspaper. Ricketts was arrested after the boy, whose name and […]
