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Deborah:
And withheld food and denied him his inhaler.

Anonymous:
Do you notice all these 'outdoor counselors' or whatever they call themselves, are ex-students?

Anonymous:
DHR to consider banning face-down restraints after boy's death

The Associated Press - ATLANTA

Following the death of a 13-year-old boy, the Georgia Department of Human Resources is considering banning the use of face-down restraints at camps for troubled youths.

Travis Parker died April 21, one day after being held face down for more than an hour by counselors at a state-run camp in White County in the North Georgia mountains.

Child welfare officials said they began reviewing the rules governing the camps after the death.

"A child has died. We believe that death warrants us going back and taking another look at what exists in Georgia," Human Resources Commissioner B.J. Walker said. "We want to have a consistent, clear set of rules. It's the least we can do."

Department of Human Resources officials have insisted they do not teach the face-down restraint, which is sometimes called a "full basket hold."

DHR spokeswoman Dena Smith said Wednesday that the agency's rules do not address the use of the face-down restraint.

"It's not mentioned," Smith said.

Six camp counselors were charged with murder Tuesday in the boy's death. White County District Attorney Stan Gunter has said the restraint caused Parker's death, which was ruled a homicide. Parker was also denied his asthma inhaler during the incident, according to state reports.

But attorneys for some of the counselors said their clients had been taught to use the face-down restraint and did not intend to harm the boy.

Dan Summer, attorney for counselor Torbin Vining, said Tuesday that the restraint was included in the counselors' training manuals and had been used previously at the camp with good results.

But Smith said the training manuals do not teach the face-down hold.

"We do not have a policy that allows face-down holds, or that trains people to do it," she said.

The proposed ban on face-down holds is one of several changes the DHR board will consider.

Other proposals include a requirement that at least two staff members be on duty when a restraint is being used on a child. Counselors would also be required to be aware of the child's medical condition.

DHR plans to hold a public hearing on the proposals in about a month, officials said.

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Deborah:
Questions:
Why would the state ?CONSIDER? banning (prohibiting) a restraints that they allege hadn?t been used, wasn?t taught, or in the training manual?
Do the ?counselors? have a copy of that training manual?

How will the ?PROPOSAL? to require two staff to be present prevent illegal restraints and/or death? There were SIX staff present at this incident.

Or the ?PROPOSAL? to require that staff ?be aware of the child?s medical condition?. It appears that the staff was well aware of Travis?s medical condition. Is the state implying that they weren?t?

Is this the best response the state could contrive? Propose ?several changes?- well known potential problems- that should already exist in their policies? How many decades has this government agency been sanctioned to protect the well-being of children in and out of programs, and they don?t already have these simple bases covered? That?s comforting.

And now, will the public kindly divert their attention to something more entertaining, resting assured that the state is hard at work ?fixing? the apparent problem that allowed this tragedy to happen.  :roll:

Antigen:
You nailed it, Deb. Here's another question. When will local, state and federal governments ban the practice of baiting kids till they snap out in order to justify whatever restraint they deem appropriate (or think they can get away with) at the moment?

Answer: Never. They refuse to even recognize that the alleged adults in the story could possibly be at fault in any way. I've seen this sort of attitude in schoolpeople, too.

This is just one of many fronts in an ongoing culture war.
There's no biochemical test to distinguish the so-called manic-depressive person from the elated or despondent football fan. Nor is there any resan to assume the manic-depressive's inner experience is driven by twisted molecules while the football fan's is driven, at worst, by twisted values
Dr. Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry
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