The New York Civil Liberties Union today called on the New York State Board of Regents to reject regulations that would permit New York State schools to use electric skin shock, electric shocks, beatings, isolation, restraints, food deprivation, and other "aversive" stimuli to control the behaviors of children with disabilities.In June 2006 the New York […]
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NYCLU Calls On State Regents To Reject Regulations Permitting Schools To Use Noxious Stimuli To Punish Students With Disabilities
US: Just another Mississippi school paddling
In January 2004, at an elementary school in Mississippi, Johnny was sent by his classroom teacher to the Principal's office to be punished. Johnny, who was 10-years-old at the time, did not know the reason for the punishment.He describes the instrument used on him as "a big solid wooden paddle." He remembers the first three […]
US: No-spank bill on way
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature is about to weigh in on a question that stirs impassioned debate among moms and dads: Should parents spank their children?Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban […]
No longer free to move about the country
LAKEWOOD, Wash. - A 9-year-old boy who didn't like his suburban Tacoma home grabbed a car, got caught, was returned home to his mother, then ran away again and flew to San Antonio with a plane change in Phoenix before he was arrested, authorities said. Investigators and Southwest Airlines officials were trying to determine how […]
Teen wants armor, sword in his yearbook photo
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - Seventeen-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he's learning to make chain mail armor by hand. So when it came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a snapshot of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a prop sword over his shoulder. Portsmouth High School […]
Boy burns to death to avoid being spanked
A 4-year-old boy has died and his mother and 3-year-old sister are hospitalized after an apartment fire Monday afternoon in Arlington."I flew out the window head first and I was just laying there a little bit blacked out," older sister Katrina Do said.Do bears visible scars of the tragedy her family suffered on Monday.She barely […]
French Homeschoolers Need Your Help Immediately!
From the HSDLA Mailing List: French homeschoolers are faced with a draconian bill which will be voted on by parliament within the next few days. We just received word about this bill today.Homeschooling is currently allowed in France. However, this bill would essentially outlaw homeschooling. No parent would be allowed to homeschool unless they showed […]
Wet your pants at school, get sentenced to community service
DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.Her mother told the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg that the girl urinated only because she was frightened by the principal.The girl, whose name was withheld by the newspaper, had worked with her classmates […]
As Obesity Fight Hits Cafeteria, Many Fear a Note From School
BLOSSBURG, Pa. - Six-year-old Karlind Dunbar barely touched her dinner, but not for time-honored 6-year-old reasons. The pasta was not the wrong shape. She did not have an urgent date with her dolls.The problem was the letter Karlind discovered, tucked inside her report card, saying that she had a body mass index in the 80th […]
Teenager sworn in as mayor of Oregon town
Kyle Corbin has been sworn in as the mayor of Union, Oregon -- even though he's barely old enough to vote himself. And in his first hours on the job, the 18-year-old mayor is calling for unity in Union.The university freshman conducted his first City Council meeting two months after he was elected as a […]
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