Mar 21, 2019, American U. Radio, Wash. DC, WAMU 88.5: VIDEO: This Is What ‘Seclusion’ Looks Like At One Fairfax County School https://wamu.org/story/19/03/21/video-this-is-what-seclusion-looks-like-at-one-fairfax-county-school/#.XJP1bShKgdU An exclusive video obtained by WAMU shows a student being forced into seclusion at a Fairfax County public school, then struggling to be let out. The footage offers a glimpse into how such interactions — especially with special needs students — can play out. The district is already under scrutiny for not fully reporting such incidents. In the video, an unidentified student’s arm hangs out of a doorway while two adults appear to be talking to one another and to the student. After one adult walks away, another appears to push the student inside the room before slamming the door shut. The student bangs against the door and screams continuously as the adult struggles to close it. The room is labeled as a “reflection room.” Also called a seclusion room, such facilities are used to isolate students as a means to manage behavior. Rooms like this are built into multiple Fairfax County special needs schools. … “The incident in this video was a response to a student who was being physically dangerous to himself and others in the classroom setting,” school officials said in a statement after being sent the video by WAMU. “School administrators and our special education team have reviewed the video and concluded that the trained staff member handled the situation appropriately, according to FCPS guidelines. Not shown in your video is that the student deescalated after about 10 minutes and returned to the classroom for the remainder of the day.” The district says the student’s parents were notified about the incident. … The event occurred this week at a Fairfax County public school that’s focused on serving students with special needs…. The video surfaces a week after a WAMU investigation revealed hundreds of instances of seclusion and restraint in Fairfax County that were not properly reported. Documents obtained by WAMU showed that children in Fairfax County Public Schools, some as young as 6 years old, were restrained or put in seclusion multiple times. In some cases, a single child was confined to a room almost 100 times in a school year. Fairfax parents told WAMU that the routine isolation of children caused trauma and hurt students’ academically. The U.S. Department of Education requires schools to report each instance of seclusion and restraint. In 2009, 2013 and 2015, the Fairfax school district reported zero cases of such incidents, which involves physically restraining students or isolating them in spaces they can’t escape from. …
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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.
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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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