Can policy reform reduce seclusion and restraint of schoolchildren?

摘要

In January 2009, the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) released "School Is Not Supposed to Hurt," which outlined dozens of reports of physical and psychological trauma caused by the use of restraint and seclusion on schoolchildren. Then in March of the same year, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) conducted a national survey of parents whose children had been restrained or secluded. In more than 70% of cases of injurious restraint and seclusion at school, COPPA found that parents did not consent to such tactics.