This is NOT history… This is NOW…
The Capital Insider Volume 14, Issue 18
Seclusion and Restraint
May 11, 2009
[I don't know what to say to my preservice teachers when they tell me child abuse only happens in poor families, or in a violent home, a drug user's home, in the city, or the backwoods, somewhere, anywhere else....
What I want them to understand is the link between the way they talk about a child's behavior and the "type" of "discipline" a child receives...
I want them to see how child abuse starts out as a story about power and submission - the antithesis of a democratic society]
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) released a report entitled “Unsafe in the Schoolhouse: Abuse of Children with Disabilities.” The report documents 143 cases of aversive interventions on students with disabilities. Over one half of these interventions occurred on children between 6 and 10 years old. Almost every disability category of students was affected. COPAA called for swift Congressional action to protect children from abusive interventions that it claims are neither educational nor effective. The complete report can be found on COPAA’s website at:
http://www.copaa.org/news/unsafe.html
Tags: abuse, categories, disability, punishment, school
