Child In Florida School Being Restrained
Again this year we try to enact legislation that will help reduce the harmful and often abusive seclusion and restraint of our children with disabilities in our public schools.
Senator Anitere Flores is sponsoring SB 144. Seclusion and Restraint on Students with Disabilities in Public Shools.
In a nutshell the legislation will do the following:
Seclusion and Restraint on Students With Disabilities in Public Schools; Requiring that manual physical restraint be used only in an emergency when there is an imminent risk of serious injury or death to the student or others; providing restrictions on the use of manual physical restraint; prohibiting the use of manual physical restraint by school personnel who are not certified to use district-approved methods for applying restraint techniques; requiring that each school medically evaluate a student after the student is manually physically restrained; prohibiting school personnel from placing a student in seclusion; providing requirements for the use of time-out; requiring that a school district report its training and certification procedures to the Department of Education, etc.
In the 2010 – 2011 School year we had over 10,000 incidents of restraint reported in our public schools.
Thank you Sen Flores for sponsoring this legislation. We need to protect our children.
Remember School Is Not Supposed To Hurt.
Keep squeaking those wheels. Ask your legislator to support or co-sponsor this legislation.
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