June 27, 2017, Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette: ACLU wants changes to state seclusion rules for Iowa schools http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/k-12-education/aclu-wants-changes-to-state-seclusion-rules-for-iowa-schools-20170627
The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and six Iowa attorneys have filed a petition asking the state Department of Education to revise rules for secluding and restraining students. …
In response to a Dec. 21 complaint from Richard, Thomas Mayes, a state Department of Education complaint officer, reviewed 455 seclusion reports involving 64 Iowa City students from Dec. 22, 2015, through Dec. 21, 2016. He also visited two Iowa City schools with seclusion rooms.
The report showed 18 Iowa City students had six or more seclusion incidents in the year studied and some kids were put in the rooms 10 or more times that year. Sixty percent of the incidents were in grades pre-K through 3 and the average length of time elementary students spent in the rooms was 18 to 29 minutes, depending on the grade.
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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.
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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