The Future of Restraint and Seclusion in Schools [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/27/164:00 AM

A teacher asks her students to take out a pencil for a pop quiz, but one child won’t pick up his pencil. The teacher repeats her request. The child refuses.

What happens next—what sort of discipline is meted out, how long it lasts, and whether administrators or parents are notified—may differ drastically from one state to the next.

While all educators struggle with how to cope with defiant or disruptive kids, there is no federal legislation and only a patchwork of state laws regulating how two of the most fraught responses—restraint and seclusion—are used with them. As a result, restraint and seclusion are misapplied on what could amount to millions of American schoolchildren each year, sometimes with deadly consequence.

[For more of this story, written by Mareesa Nicosia, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/edu...n-in-schools/426735/]

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Karen ClemmerMember

When my son was in elementary school, in a Sp Ed class - he witnessed these kinds of events. Now, 10+ years later - he can describe in incredible detail what happened - from the color of the chair, who was sitting where, who did what ..... This must change! The whole classroom of vulnerable students is experiencing vicarious trauma!!!!

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