Friday, November 30, 2012

School physical restraint

  • Maine restraint law leaves local schools in bind

    The change, which is legally binding for schools and teachers and was approved by the state Legislature, has added a layer of uncertainty on when teachers or other school staff can physically restrain and isolate students who are being disruptive and ...

    www.sunjournal.com

  • Seclusion And Restraint In Schools: Parents Fight Back Against 'Deadly' Tactics

    Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against schools and districts as parents speak out against physical disciplinary methods that have injured or killed their children, ABC News reports.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Death at school: Parents protest dangerous discipline for autistic, disabled kids

    Sheila Foster's son Corey died after being restrained face-down by staff when he allegedly refused to leave the basketball court at Leake & Watts school in Yonkers, N.Y. Mrs. Foster has joined other parents in the fight to end the use of physical ...

    www.wlsam.com

  • Memphis youth jail training to use "physical hold" restraint technique

    "We don't want to do it, but we do it to save lives or keep people safe." During the past decade, physical restraints have been blamed for several deaths - often from asphyxiation - at schools, group homes, wilderness or boot camps and treatment centers.

    www.commercialappeal.com

  • Our View: Do new rules make school discipline harder?

    What's happening in Maine, however, is that state rules were recently revised to increase reporting and follow-up requirements when restraint, which also includes physical isolation, is used. The experiences of some educators since that change occurred ...

    www.pressherald.com

  • Longview School District suspends use of padded room for kids

    "It is not used as punishment," said Sandy Catt, communications director for the Longview School District. "It is used as a treatment in lieu of a physical hold or accepted therapeutic restraint for a child." Forough feels many districts across the ...

    q13fox.com

  • More discretion, fewer arrests for Cherokee School's kids

    Teachers not only use restraint - physical management techniques have been used on out-of-control students 53 times this fall - but also practice it when it comes to pressing charges, notwithstanding the school's alarming arrest tallies. School ...

    www.orlandosentinel.com

  • How Rachel Weisz put depth in 'Blue Sea' performance

    As adapted and directed by British independent filmmaker Davies ("Distant Voices, Still Lives"), the film version of Terence Rattigan's heralded 1952 play is, unlike that particular scene, largely a study in restraint. Having finally ... The project ...

    www.latimes.com

  • Seclusion-room policy: State plan a burden, schools say

    The department collected comments on the draft of a policy that for the first time would regulate Ohio schools' use of seclusion rooms and physical restraint. More than a dozen Ohio school officials wrote to the department, most using such terms as ...

    www.dispatch.com

  • NY Fed's Dudley: Job Growth Is 'Insufficient' To Change 'Unacceptably High ...

    Of course, there is the physical damage, which was geographically widespread, but particularly devastating in some communities right here in New York City, including Breezy Point, the Rockaways, and portions of Staten Island, and in so many cities and ...

    www.businessinsider.com

  • Kentucky considers rules for handling unruly children

    While there is no Kentucky law governing how schools use restraint or seclusion, more efforts are being made to guide schools on properly using restraint and seclusion tactics with seemingly uncontrollable or difficult to manage children. The state ...

    www.ksdk.com

  • Minnesota case ignites Northwest debate on home, self-defense

    I want to know what the high school rumor mill was saying about this guy's place in this small, small town…There IS more to this story concerning our society and culture than merely this guy's lack of reasonable perception and restraint in the face of ...

    www.examiner.com

  • Behavior issues a challenge in student integration

    ... Disabilities Education Improvement Act. --. For four decades, federal law has enabled children with disabilities to be integrated with regular education students at school, but even today that integration is a puzzle in progress. .... Custren said ...

    www.altoonamirror.com

  • Unlearning liberty

    'At Stanford, I took every human rights class that was offered, every First Amendment class, and in addition to that, for six additional credits, I did an independent study on the origins of the prior restraint doctrine of Henry VIII and Queen ...

    www.spiked-online.com

  • Parking Charges 'Should Be Increased' To Force Us To Exercise, Report Suggests

    In the guidance it said: "One way of encouraging people to walk or cycle, as a form of transport, might be to apply greater levels of restraint on car usage in urban areas. "This could be achieved, for instance, by introducing ... to the shops or ...

    www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

  • UN chief urges Israel restraint, end rocketing

    Robert F. Kennedy, accusing him of negligence, assault and battery, as well as causing them emotional and physical distress.

    www.ktiv.com

  • How did we get so fat?

    If they can't pull down and lock the seat's rigid restraint system, they can't ride. Park officials say ... And medical schools turn away donor cadavers because they're too big to store, too heavy to move or the excessive fat simply renders them ...

    www.nctimes.com

  • Morehead State Coach Deserves Dismissal after Publicly Abusing Student-Athlete

    Coach Woods displayed no class, no restraint, and no awareness as he allowed his temper to get the best of him during a hard fought loss against highly-rated Kentucky.

    www.forbes.com

  • Ministry to probe reports of flogging

    Education Minister Ronald Thwaites says his ministry will be launching an investigation into reports over the weekend that teachers at Kensington Primary School in St Catherine have been carrying out corporal punishment against its students. ... "My ...

    jamaica-gleaner.com

  • New standards call for more "informational" texts, to the chagrin of ...

    American literature teacher Suzanne Forman re-enacted her first thoughts with the colorful restraint of someone practiced in working with children.

    www.kansascity.com

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