Mar 29, 2019, Abilene (KS) Reflector Chronicle: $400,000 facelift for Abilene schools http://www.abilene-rc.com/news/facelift-for-abilene-schools/article_d67ad924-5160-11e9-859a-f731d2a14bbb.html Maintaining school buildings is not a cheap endeavor. Earlier this month the Abilene Public Schools Board of Education approved the 2018-19 capital outlay budget that includes money to replace ceiling tiles, update some bathrooms, replace floors and carpets and buy a water heater. … Two “calming” rooms At McKinley Intermediate Elementary School one room will be divided to create two “calming rooms” with magnetic locks. Cost is $3,000. A calming room is a place where students who are having behavioral issues can go to calm down, Nelson said. They are used when a student exhibits excessive physical behavior. “Sometimes kids are aggressive but it’s usually short term,” Nelson said. “The de-escalation or calming room is a place to sit and have some solitude. Once they calm down, we can get them back into the education environment. The majority of the time they calm down and then go back to class.” …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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