NEW ORLEANS-- A Catholic high school that was the country's last refuge of corporal punishment has ended a legal struggle over control of the school and agreed that the days of paddling are over.

An archbishop has ordered officials at a Black Catholic school in New Orleans to refrain from corporal punishment practices, despite the support of many students and families for the disciplinary ...

NEW ORLEANS-- For the past 60 years, teachers and administrators at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans have wielded an 18-inch-long wooden paddle -- euphemistically called "the board of ...

It's unlikely most schoolboys would want to be spanked and end up with a red bottom when they misbehave. But students at St Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been holding a rally ...

that still paddles -- faces a potential end. Alumni aimed their impassioned defense of corporal punishment at New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond, whose concern about the policy prompted the ...