T.C.A. § 49-6-3401 lists the grounds on which a student may be suspended in Tennessee. The list is not exhaustive, reading carefully you will notice that those violations…

When I began my career in education some 20 years ago I was familiar with corporal punishment mainly from my own experience as a student. At the beginning of my career, I was teaching in the East Baton Rouge School District and the practice was seldom used.