Feb 7, 2020, Pekin (IL) Daily Times: Peoria schools officers trained for ‘deescalation,’ including use of pepper spray https://www.pekintimes.com/news/20200207/peoria-schools-officers-trained-for-deescalation-including-use-of-pepper-spray PEORIA — School resource officers with Peoria Public Schools undergo yearly training to be able to use pepper spray to “deescalate” situations like the one that occurred earlier this week at a Central Peoria middle school. On Tuesday, as many as five girls at Sterling Middle School were involved in a fight in the school’s lunch room and a resource officer used pepper spray to break up the fight. No one was seriously injured, and the combatants had been dispersed by the time Peoria police officers arrived. But the matter did beg the questions: Why was pepper spray used on children between the ages of 10 and 14? And who can use the spray? Thomas Bruch, a district spokesman, said the 27 officers within the district take an annual tactics training class regarding how to control situations and how to safety deescalate them without causing further harm to themselves or the students. But, much like police officers, there are rules on when and how they use the devices, Bruch said. Many of the resource officers were trained as police officers….
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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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