COLLINS — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees the distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half is a section titled ...

To paddle or not to paddle, that was the question the Marion County School Board debated Thursday during a review of the 2010-11 Student Code of Conduct. After a long debate, it appears corporal ...

The stories must have sounded barbaric to the teenager sitting wide-eyed among adults at the breakfast table: Thirty-three swats with a wooden paddle for violating the dress code by wearing cuffed ...