Feb 5, 2018, Chicago Tribune: Indiana House passes bill to limit school suspensions, expulsions http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-inlegis-house-discipline-school-st-0206-20180205-story.html A bill looking to reduce suspensions, expulsions and school arrests unanimously passed the House on Monday. … State data provided to lawmakers show schools suspended more than 100,000 students on average each year between 2015 and 2017 — about one in 10 statewide. Nearly 3,000 children were expelled each year during that period. … Following a national trend, the bill would require the state department of education would provide a framework for schools starting in 2019-2020 to develop an "evidence-based plan" emphasizing positive discipline strategies and restorative practices to deescalate behavioral problems before it leads to suspensions, expulsions or school arrests. … The goal is to have school districts — with parental feedback — develop a graduated "positive discipline" system that leads to punishment and lost school time only as a last resort. It also requires schools to factor in the role that formative traumatic stress plays on student behavior. …
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.