In 1980 I published an article in "The Clearing House" that examined a host of questions that teachers were asking about the practice of corporal punishment in the classroom. This was a method frequently used at that time to deal with discipline problems teachers encountered. In this present article I revisit those questions to see what different answers today, 40 years later, might have evolved and to suggest new questions that are now called for in light of legal changes and emerging educational issues like child abuse concerns and discrimination laws and cases. What has and has not changed in this age-old discipline practice? [For the original article "Principles of Classroom Discipline: Toward a Pragmatic Synthesis," see EJ176896.]