Restraint & Seclusion - Violent Lessons

Discipline or ABUSE?

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• SCHOOL abuse

[annam20]

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[paulaegraham]

I suppose it would be better to let them loose on the rest of the kids when they are kicking like that.

For some kids, restraint is the only intimacy they can handle.

[annam20]

@paulaegraham I allowed this  comment to show what our children actually have to deal with.There is nothing "intimate" about restraint. Restraint should only be used when there is imminent danger. Restraint is not therapy, it causes physical & emotionsl harm! Your archaic thinking puts our children in danger. Please do some research & educate yourself, especially if you work with autistic children.

[paulaegraham]

I teach children from 10-19. Their parents didn't want to restrain, or, God forbid, swat.

Then when time yeilds the seeds they have sown, and they are faced with a defiant, selfish, disrespecful monster. They are quick to put their kids in our bootcamp type program where they not only have to face discipline for the first time, but live with older kids who have been in gangs, are molestors, etc.

For those people I have absolute contempt.

[annam20]

@paulaegraham We are talking about special needs children. These children are autistic not all the lovely names you just used. I hope you arent working with special needs children.

[cmvmom]

This made me cry

[Duvmasta]

It breaks my heart to see my own kind being restrained like that while they plead for mercy. But sometimes, it is a neccessary evil, some of those children have records of harming themselves or others, or who constantly try to hurt people. I agree with you, children could get hurt or die, and these restraints could be exploited by teachers with corrupt ideologies who will use these methods for such mundane penalties i.e, not blowing your nose as quoted in this movie, or even swearing.

[paulaegraham]

@annam20 They weren't hurt. They were merely held so they couldn't move. More often than was necesary probably.

However, it isn't like they were beaten. It's not like they waer allowed to beat each other either.

[grayspeak]

In defense, it's an unfortunate truth many teachers r not trained in the proper methods o/caring for special needs kids. I worked for an Autism Intervantion Center. We strove to educate and enrich the lives of Autistic children in the comfort of their own homes. We were shown a restraint method which did not utilize our hands, but arms -a gentle but strong method used for the sole purpose of calming the child by creating a 'bubble' around them. It worked in moments, & we were back to learning.

[gregorkrause]

01:27 what song was being sung?

[DaltonMan321]

I got physically uncomfortable from watching this. I've been a victim of excessive restraints myself as a little boy and this opens up various emotional scars I've gotten from mistreatment from both my parents and a few various staff members from schools, and later group homes.

This issue needs to be focused on way more than anything else.

[yaddleskidaddle]

"sit sit sit right now" LISTEN TO THE CHILD. SHE MEANS IT!

[trumpetgirl2008]

In defense of the teachers, most of them are simply not trained to handle children with disabilities.  I'm a current education major. I have to take ONE class in special education, and that's more of a "these are what symptoms of autism are, these are what symptoms of fragile x are", nothing about how to work with students who have these disabilities. If you've never been taught how you should handle an autistic child, can you be truly blamed for doing it wrong?

[YoukoKuwabara]

@arlena007 thank you no one listens about the special eds kids getting hurt and restrained for not doing homework

[YoukoKuwabara]

thank you so much as a disabled person I came from the time of the room and the school blaming the parents for their short comings

[johnny10301968]

This is ABUSE.