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Intolerable discipline: Abusive practices require restrictions

May 21, 2009

The deaths of students at the disciplinary hands of school officials is unconscionable. Hundreds of other vulnerable students are put at risk from measures used by school officials to restrain troublesome students, according to a congressional report.

The Government Accountability Office compiled information detailing deaths and abusive techniques to restrain disruptive students. A 14-year-old Texas boy died when a teacher pinned the child down after he refused to remain seated.

In another instance, an autistic Michigan student having a seizure died after he was put in a prone restraint for an hour.

They are among 20 students who have died since 1990 due to restrictive breathing tactics employed as discipline, the report said.

In other practices bordering on abusive, students are confined to closets or other small spaces. One 9-year-old child was put in a "time out" room 75 times in six months for whistling and waving his hands. A 13-year-old boy with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder hung himself while in seclusion.

The revulsion caused Rep. Lynn Woolsey to ask, "Do we need anti-torture legislation for our schools?"

Some states ban the practices. Congress is considering legislation to limit use of restraints and seclusion nationwide, but that should not be necessary if states and individual districts exercised their responsibility to do so.

 

 

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