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Use of Restraints Increasing in Public Schools?

Posted on July 14, 2008

What Tim eventually said .was that he didn t want to go to school because he thought the school was trying to kill him. John Miller, a podiatrist in Allegany, N.Y, says this about his 12-year-old son, who has Asperger Syndrome, and who was, according to a July 15th New York Times article, held down prone on the floor by teachers (one time for 20 minutes) when he was confrontational. The NYT article discusses something that is too familiar to me and to parents of special needs children -and that is, one suspects, a bit more than shocking to many. Kids coming home with bruises...

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