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The Keeping All Students Safe Act or KASSA (H.R. 3474, S. 1858) is designed to protect children from the abuse of restraint and seclusion in school.The first Congressional bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on December 9, 2007, and named the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. [1]
Seclusion and restraint are often misused in both public and private schools causing severe injury and trauma for students. restraint and seclusion are often used as punishment for minor behavioral problems. [3] [4] these issues have caused people to call the practices a human rights issue, disabled rights issue, and civil rights issue. There ...
Restraint, a practice that reduces students’ ability to move, and seclusion, which involuntarily places children in isolation, can now only be used if a student or staff member is in imminent ...
Melissa Freel, the parent of a former Edison student and the co-leader of Michigan Advocates to End Seclusion and Restraint, said her organization sent Hazel Park's board a letter on June 18 ...
Also, school districts hide their disabled child's restraint or seclusion from the parents, denying the child and their family the opportunity to recover. [10] The U.S. Congress has proposed legislation, such as the "Keeping All Students Safe Act", to curtail school district use of restraint and seclusion. Even with bipartisan support, the bill ...
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In the U.S. in the late 2010s and into the 2020s (so far), restraint of psychiatric patients and/or people with mental disorders (for all purpose other than very temporarily if another person would be in danger) has come under heavy fire from many professionals (such as those in the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective) and human rights groups (such as Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint ...
On November 30, 2018, 13-year-old Max Benson (October 2005 – 30 November 2018), an autistic boy from Davis, California, died at the hospital from cardiac complications as a result of being held in an extended prone physical restraint by staff at his now-defunct K-12 non-public school, Guiding Hands School in El Dorado County, California, where he was placed a few months prior by Davis Joint ...