School is Not Supposed to Hurt
But for some kids it does, according to proponents of H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act.
Among other things, the bill would prohibit elementary and secondary school personnel from managing any student using mechanical or chemical restraints, physical restraints, or escorts that restrict breathing, or any “aversive behavioral intervention” that compromises student health and safety.
The National Disability Rights Network has produced reports (2010, 2009) on control and disciplinary practices in schools that hurt, and sometimes kill, students.
The bill recently received a cost estimate (a little over $2.00 per U.S. family), a signal that it could come up for a vote soon. The spending in the bill would award grants to states to assist them in establishing and implementing policies, as well as collecting and analyzing data, related to the physical restraint or seclusion of elementary and secondary school students.
What say you? Here’s the current vote on H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. Click to vote, comment, learn more, or edit the wiki article about the bill.
acpbe
If you pay them, they’ll stop. This just means more money the more they do it. 2 is a lot of money too.
Threetoedpete
OK. My wife is an expert in special education with twenty-seven years of experience in the discipline and countless hours of retraining. When you have an autistic child who goes berserk and looses it how exactly precisely are the staff supposed to handle it with out the child harming him or her self and other children in the room ? This is so stupid on it’s face it could of only been suggested by someone who has absolutely no clue what effort is going on in the suburban districts to comply with no child. Stuff like this is what gives the tea partiers their power. She loves her children And has been instructed with great expense I might add how to solve these disruptions. Only a pin head would bring this up. Instead of over thinking stuff like this, why don’t you get you asses out of the belt way and put them in the grass where people who actually care and give a damn are rolling up their selves and doing something constructive. Shear idiocy.
Threetoedpete
This is an unnecessary law. anyone using chemical, or artificial restraints on a child had committed an assault on the child. We got that one the books. You arrest them, charged them and prosecuted them. They will lose their certificate. Problem solved.I gotta figure this is another way for the left to throw money at the inner city schools for retraining of their instructors. Suburban districts already know how to do this. they are good at doing this. Kinda hard to admit failure. No matter how much money you throw at the iner city schools, they are set up to fail You cannot teach morality with out a compass. And nothing is going to change no mater how much money you thorw at them unless you are willing to liquidate all the conservatives out side the beltways. And you can make a book on that one. We told Houston ISD to break it up in 1973. And they abd the federal teaching establishment spit in our face. Ok live in the sewage you have created there. I hope you and Alice Livin drown in it.