Month: June 2021
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Urgent: Support for Maine Keeping All Students Safe Act (LD 1373)
e Maine House recently passed LD 1373, but the Maine Senate, unfortunately, rejected it. The most controversial part was the seclusion ban. The House has therefore amended the bill to strike the seclusion ban. While this is extremely disappointing, the bill still contains worthwhile measures, such as a ban on prone restraint.
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Duality of Discipline Disparity
Horace Mann spoke in 1848 that “Education…is a great equalizer of conditions of men” however in today’s U.S. education system the only greatness to be witnessed is that of the duality of students which leads to inequality and injustice. In a duality system of civil rights and criminal wrongs, students bear the burden of society’s…
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This is Paige’s story
Restraints and seclusions are gateways to physical and emotional abuse, especially in the absence of adequate oversight. Unfortunately, our former school district failed to provide a safe classroom environment for my seven-year-old autistic daughter, Paige, when she joined a multi-grade special day class at Eisenhower Elementary, a school within the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD)…
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Seclusion: We can and must do better
A recent post on social media elicited a response from an individual, who indicated that they has 25 years experience in the field of education, who seemed to disagree with our assertion about seclusion rooms which stated: Nothing is calming about a seclusion room. Children don’t learn to self-regulate by being thrown into an empty…