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Roll Call – Harper: Restraint Guidelines Endanger Children

By: Magnolia Tribune - May 15, 2012

Harper: Restraint Guidelines Endanger Children

By Rep. Gregg Harper
Special to Roll Call
May 14, 2012, Midnight

Every day in schools across the United States, students are being subjected to barbaric and potentially deadly treatment in the form of seclusion and restraint.
According to leading education researchers and child trauma experts, as well as the Government Accountability Office, the use of these practices — which include forcibly pinning students to the ground, strapping them to chairs or locking them in closets — is dangerous and traumatic for everyone involved, including teachers, other school personnel and students. Their use has been linked to physical and emotional harm and even death. It is a practice that amounts to institutionalized child abuse, and it has no place in our schools.

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