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Whooter:
Its good to see progress being made.  I hope they are able to put a system in place to measure the effectiveness of the bill.   The GAO investigated Residential Treatment facilities and then in a separate study looked at our school system and found the kids in the school system (classrooms) were more at risk and needed a bill to target training for our teachers.

 (During the last school year alone, Texas and California documented over 33,000 incidents in which seclusion and restraint were used on students in public and private schools).  There was a case where a teacher killed a student and it was ruled a homicide and they just moved the teacher to a different school district and she is still teaching today!  Unbelievable!  

I would guess this is because teachers in our school system undergo a very in-depth training in teaching our children academically but receive very little to no training in dealing with special needs/disruptive children and the proper use of restraints.  Although problems were found in programs, as well, (in a previous study) programs seem to have training programs in place to teach staff how to properly use restraints and therefore didn’t need to be targeted by this current bill.

Perhaps if our school systems could adopt the same training procedures as they have in many of the teen programs around the country the incidences of children being hurt could be greatly reduced.  This may be a good first step.



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Pile of Dead Kids:

--- Quote from: "Whooter" --- Although problems were found in programs, as well, (in a previous study) programs seem to have training programs in place to teach staff how to properly use restraints and therefore didn’t need to be targeted by this current bill.

Perhaps if our school systems could adopt the same training procedures as they have in many of the teen programs around the country the incidences of children being hurt could be greatly reduced.  This may be a good first step.
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