Parents at a popular Upper Manhattan elementary school where “discipline is not punitive” went ballistic when they learned the principal had hired a teacher once accused of ordering a child to wash ...

Many of us have a fond (or not so fond) memory of being forced to wash our mouths out with soap when our parents caught us peppering our sentences with profanity. Having soap in our mouths felt as ...

A Florida couple has been arrested for making their child eat a bar of soap as punishment. It is a ramped-up version of an old-fashioned punishment many of today's adults endured as children -- and ...

References to the movie "A Christmas Story" aren't uncommon this time of year, but a North Carolina teacher's method of reprimanding one student has people mainly mentioning a scene in the film ...