BACK TO THE FUTURE: A Texas town enrolls the paddle to teach unruly students a lesson.

A Texas town just outside Fort Hood has decided to bring back an old-fashioned weapon to instill a little more discipline in the increasingly unruly student body: the paddle.

With just weeks remaining in the academic year, has the return of corporal punishment brought law and order to the classrooms, cafeterias and hallways in Temple schools?

“The discipline problem is much better than it’s been in years,” school board president Steve Wright, who runs a construction business, told the Washington Post.

Everything old is new again.