Comments on: Snow Delays Education Department Release Of Restraint, Seclusion Policies http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/02/12/ed-dept-delay-restraint/6993/ Developmental Disability News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Floridamom http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/02/12/ed-dept-delay-restraint/6993/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Floridamom Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:15:55 +0000 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/?p=6993#comment-1210 I don't believe Arne Duncan is going to do one thing to help put a stop to restraint and seclusion used on children with disabilities unless he is forced to do so. This is the second time he has delayed in sending out a policy to all the DOE's in the United States. I guess the abuse or death of children with disabilities in the public school system doesn't seem to be that important enough to Mr. Duncan to fix this out of control problem. I don’t believe Arne Duncan is going to do one thing to help put a stop to restraint and seclusion used on children with disabilities unless he is forced to do so. This is the second time he has delayed in sending out a policy to all the DOE’s in the United States. I guess the abuse or death of children with disabilities in the public school system doesn’t seem to be that important enough to Mr. Duncan to fix this out of control problem.

]]> By: Urania32 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/02/12/ed-dept-delay-restraint/6993/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Urania32 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:30:11 +0000 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/?p=6993#comment-1209 Another delay does not help a 6 year old being handcuffed in Florida or the next child who will be abused tomorrow. We have to fight to change the system in Florida and the entire United States. Some mistakes school staff will do over and over again because they know they can get away with it. To err is human, but to really foul up and destroy any chance your child will have a free appropriate public education is to face school staff who suffer from three monkey syndrome. When some school staff open their mouth what comes out runs the gamut of blatantly known ignorant of manifestations of children’s disabilities. Instead of doing testing and evaluations to provide appropriate special education services school staff are allowed to implement interventions in the classroom they think up that hurt, humiliate and traumatize the child. What ever comes out of Washington DC will not stop the abuse for years if parents don’t take schools to due process and fight to protect their children. Linda D. Montalbano Another delay does not help a 6 year old being handcuffed in Florida or the next child who will be abused tomorrow. We have to fight to change the system in Florida and the entire United States. Some mistakes school staff will do over and over again because they know they can get away with it. To err is human, but to really foul up and destroy any chance your child will have a free appropriate public education is to face school staff who suffer from three monkey syndrome. When some school staff open their mouth what comes out runs the gamut of blatantly known ignorant of manifestations of children’s disabilities. Instead of doing testing and evaluations to provide appropriate special education services school staff are allowed to implement interventions in the classroom they think up that hurt, humiliate and traumatize the child. What ever comes out of Washington DC will not stop the abuse for years if parents don’t take schools to due process and fight to protect their children. Linda D. Montalbano

]]> By: deealpert http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/02/12/ed-dept-delay-restraint/6993/comment-page-1/#comment-1194 deealpert Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:52:48 +0000 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/?p=6993#comment-1194 Keep up the pressure on USDOE to release all states' restraints and seclusion materials. While I appreciate that DC was snowed under, the USDOE web site does show they managed to post some press releases this week, so obviously posting the restraints and seclusion materials was not their highest priority. It should be! I hope this doesn't wind up as a case of "the dog ate my homework." There are soooo many holidays coming up in February (Valentine's Day/Chinese New Year; President's Day), not to mention March (St. Patrick's Day), and February is a short month anyway. Let's keep fingers crossed that the snowstorm wasn't just USDOE's excuse du jour for not making these available for public scrutiny. Often, USDOE has failed to post, or posted in an extremely laggardly fashion, materials which might embarrass state ed. depts. And the restrains and seclusion materials are definitely in this group. Great work so far. Let us all know what we can do to help. Dee Alpert, Publisher SpecialEducationMuckraker.com Keep up the pressure on USDOE to release all states’ restraints and seclusion materials. While I appreciate that DC was snowed under, the USDOE web site does show they managed to post some press releases this week, so obviously posting the restraints and seclusion materials was not their highest priority.

It should be!

I hope this doesn’t wind up as a case of “the dog ate my homework.” There are soooo many holidays coming up in February (Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year; President’s Day), not to mention March (St. Patrick’s Day), and February is a short month anyway. Let’s keep fingers crossed that the snowstorm wasn’t just USDOE’s excuse du jour for not making these available for public scrutiny. Often, USDOE has failed to post, or posted in an extremely laggardly fashion, materials which might embarrass state ed. depts. And the restrains and seclusion materials are definitely in this group.

Great work so far. Let us all know what we can do to help.

Dee Alpert, Publisher
SpecialEducationMuckraker.com

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