When I was a child back in the early 1950’s, if a child lied or spoke disrespectfully, parents might threaten, ‘I’m going to wash your mouth out with soap.’ What I wouldn’t give for that bar of soap ...

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Dear Amy: At a play group recently with my toddler son, another mother with whom I am acquainted (but not close to) mentioned in the course of conversation that she washed her 5-year-old's mouth out ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A Guilford County Schools' teacher has resigned amid an investigation into whether she washed out a student's mouth with soap. Multiple media outlets report Wiley Elementary ...

HUMBLE, Texas – An investigation is now underway after a Humble Independent School District substitute teacher allegedly assaulted a 13-year-old student with Down Syndrome on Tuesday. Humble ISD tells ...

Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems as if our country is sinking into a swamp of crude and offensive language. Films, cable TV, novels, popular music and everyday conversation are throbbing with ...

(Lexington-AP) Sept. 2, 2004 - A Lexington day care teacher has been arrested after police said she put soap in a 4-year-old boy's mouth to punish him. Police say Angelica Cecile Strickland, 41, ...