mrsjerome
05-20-2009, 01:11 PM
Seclusions and Restraints
Selected Cases of Death and Abuse At Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-719T
High lights page Full Report and accessible Text available by clicking on to the available documents located on the top of this website.
What has been going on is just inexcusable. Can’t believe this is happening in this day and age. These reports where submitted to the GAO Committee asking for Federal legislation creating a uniform code and outlaw of these restraints plus a system that will educate our teachers in the handling of these children. These kids have enough problems the way it is without traumatizing and in some cases causing their deaths. We need to implement a stop to these tactics. It is way overdue. We place children in our schools to learn the best they can and not be subject to the torture that some of them have had to endure. These where the restraints used in the institutions back in the dark ages. There should be no place for them in our schools.
These are documented reports. This may be just the tip of the iceberg as many cases are not followed up on for documentation. This meeting was televised on Cspan yesterday. From what I heard and saw this is a problem that is not lessening but growing. The only recourse for some of these parents is to get an attorney and sue the school district.
One case the boy in Texas was actually smothered and the death ruled a homicide. The teacher was put on the Texas abuse registry. Somehow her name was taken off ( no one knows why) She moved to Virginia and is employed as a special ed teacher in that state. With the diligence of the special investigator of course she is now put on leave till an outcome of the allegations is reached. The lady that lost her foster son summed it up this way why isn’t there some national registry that these teachers can be placed on so they are not allowed to cross state lines and find employment in another state. Was told that with the disappearance of her name from the Texas registry another state would not have been able to check it out.
If parents would have treated their kids the ways these kids were treated they would be in jail for child abuse and in cases murder. A lot of these cases where not teachers defending themselves or students either. But a means of discipline?? Give me a break!!
Our animals have better protections put in place than these kids do.
Selected Cases of Death and Abuse At Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-719T
High lights page Full Report and accessible Text available by clicking on to the available documents located on the top of this website.
What has been going on is just inexcusable. Can’t believe this is happening in this day and age. These reports where submitted to the GAO Committee asking for Federal legislation creating a uniform code and outlaw of these restraints plus a system that will educate our teachers in the handling of these children. These kids have enough problems the way it is without traumatizing and in some cases causing their deaths. We need to implement a stop to these tactics. It is way overdue. We place children in our schools to learn the best they can and not be subject to the torture that some of them have had to endure. These where the restraints used in the institutions back in the dark ages. There should be no place for them in our schools.
These are documented reports. This may be just the tip of the iceberg as many cases are not followed up on for documentation. This meeting was televised on Cspan yesterday. From what I heard and saw this is a problem that is not lessening but growing. The only recourse for some of these parents is to get an attorney and sue the school district.
One case the boy in Texas was actually smothered and the death ruled a homicide. The teacher was put on the Texas abuse registry. Somehow her name was taken off ( no one knows why) She moved to Virginia and is employed as a special ed teacher in that state. With the diligence of the special investigator of course she is now put on leave till an outcome of the allegations is reached. The lady that lost her foster son summed it up this way why isn’t there some national registry that these teachers can be placed on so they are not allowed to cross state lines and find employment in another state. Was told that with the disappearance of her name from the Texas registry another state would not have been able to check it out.
If parents would have treated their kids the ways these kids were treated they would be in jail for child abuse and in cases murder. A lot of these cases where not teachers defending themselves or students either. But a means of discipline?? Give me a break!!
Our animals have better protections put in place than these kids do.