Colorado could be on the brink of doing something nearly two dozen states have yet to do: officially outlaw corporal punishment in schools.
“I thought this was already done. I did not realize this was still a thing,” Aurora Public Schools board member Michael Carter told lawmakers at a hearing for a bill that would ban the practice. “One of the things that everybody in here knows, I believe, is that it does not work.” Carter said was physically disciplined as a student in Texas in the 1980s.
