Sept 14, 2018, National Post: Alberta to revisit isolation guidelines after boy with autism locked naked in room https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/alberta-to-revisit-guidelines-on-secluding-children-at-school/wcm/8501c52e-2a34-40e9-9f46-f75d05986b30
Alberta’s education minister said he’s convening a working group of teachers, parents and advocates by next week to write a new set of guidelines for schools to use when isolating students with behavioural issues. …
His statement comes after a Sherwood Park family said their child with autism was locked, naked, in a school isolation room. The student’s parents are suing the teacher, the principal, the school board and the Alberta government.
The lawsuit, filed last year in the Court of Queen’s Bench, said staff at Clover Bar School in Sherwood Park and the agencies that oversaw them committed “malfeasance” and violated the then-12-year-old boy’s charter rights when they told him to remove all his clothes, then locked him, unsupervised, in the small room in 2015. …
Elk Island Public Schools spokeswoman Laura McNabb said Thursday the district is aware of the lawsuit and “will strongly defend the actions of (district) staff” in court. She would not say if the board had filed a statement of defence with the court, or comment further on the case. …
In a statement of claim filed with the court, parents Marcy Oakes and Warren Henschel said their son is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, a speech disorder and severe gastrointestinal disorders. He required one-on-one supervision in school for his health and safety, it said.
On Sept. 23, 2015, their son’s teacher sent them a photo of the boy naked and covered in feces inside the isolation room, the statement said. …
top of page
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
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
CHECK OUT MY SUBSTACK:
https://annedachel.substack.com/
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
Search
bottom of page
Comments