NEW ORLEANS (RNS) 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW ORLEANS-- One by one, alumni of St. Augustine High School took the microphone Feb. 24, recalling one paddling at the hands of a St. Augustine teacher that turned them around and taught them a ...