Mar 18, 2019, KDVR—TV, Denver, CO: New Colorado bill would limit suspensions for pre-K to 2nd grade students https://kdvr.com/2019/03/18/new-colorado-bill-would-limit-suspensions-for-pre-k-to-2nd-grade-students/ DENVER -- State Representatives will debate a bill in the House chambers this week aimed at curbing the number of young students suspended or expelled in Colorado each year. The bill would make the standards for expelling and suspending students stricter, while continuing to give school administrators the ultimate say. The Colorado Children's Campaign has been fighting for the bill for three years. It pulled statistics from the Department of Education and found last year, nearly 6,000 preschool through 2nd grade students were suspended or expelled in Colorado. The group broke the numbers down further and found boys, children of color and children with disabilities were disproportionately impacted. … ... Sometimes a suspension is necessary to resolve a safety issue, but if it’s not a safety issue, there is no evidence that removing a child from school helps them adjust their behavior, especially at this young age when kids don’t understand cause and effect like an older child does," said Jaeger. The bill is focused on public preschool through 2nd grade because this is the age at which kids are developing an understanding of themselves at school and children’s brains are most malleable….
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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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