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Reader Stories: Share Your Child's Experience With Restraint and Seclusion

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Has your child had an experience with restraint and seclusion in school? Often children are not able to report when these techniques are used, leaving parents to wonder and worry. Here, parents share stories about restraint and seclusion to let other parents know what to look for, and bear witness to abuse.

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I Sued the School District for What They Did to My Child

I filed a police report for the 3 restrainings after the first one. I called DCF/child abuse hotline 3 times after the first time. I removed my son and enrolled him into a private school with the McK…More

Abuse Caused PTSD

After finding out about the multiple unreported incidents and finding bruises, we pulled him out of the district program and enrolled in a cyber charter school. We filed due process which was settled…More

Restraint and Seclusion in Kindergarten

We found out when we went in for a parent-teacher conference and the teacher was missing. We had to pry it out of the school personnel as to why the teacher was missing - they didn't want to tell us …More

Three Years of Surviving Restraints and Seclusion

During Meeting with Team, my husband and I insisted town hire a Board Certified Behavior Analyst to complete Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Plan as well as train staff. We also had schoo…More

Restrained at Camp

Our son has a hard time verbalizing but indicated something had happened. We contacted the aid who told us which was confirmed by independent witnesses. We notified the camp authorities. She is also …More

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