***Portland, OR: Paras sue over "physical abuse/emotional distress"; SPED students VIOLENT
Updated: Apr 13, 2019
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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.
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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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Mar 21, 2019, KGW8, Portland, OR: Classrooms in Crisis: Educators of special needs students sue districts https://www.kgw.com/article/news/classrooms-in-crisis-educators-of-special-needs-students-sue-districts/283-bcb3ca79-0077-4a04-bc52-c7ebef3bea51
Paraeducators are suing districts after alleged physical abuse and emotional distress from students acting out.
Ten Portland metro area paraeducators have filed lawsuits against three school districts for the abuse they say they suffered in classrooms and the lack of action by school officials to help them….
“I’ve had my breasts grabbed so violently it left bruises, I’ve had bodies rubbed against me in a sexual nature. I’ve had my rotator cuff torn, I've been head-butted, I've had several concussions, fractures, wore a cast, I've been peed on, bled on,” said Moore.
While Moore said she experienced some of these incidents throughout her career, she said things got worse during the last five or six years.
“To not be able to protect other students, coworkers and myself, you know. You feel defeated,” said Moore. ...
Manzella, an educational assistant for 10 years, also said these incidents became more intense over the last five years….
She said instead of helping those kids, she spent her days handling violent and disruptive behavior incidents….
Once Moore filed her lawsuit, paraeducators from other school districts started coming forward with their stories, including John Percich.
Percich, a paraeducator at Beaverton High School for six years, recently filed a lawsuit against the Beaverton School District.
“I was working with severely impacted autism students. Special needs students, not mainstream students,” said Percich. …
He said the school district did not help the teachers, the staff or students….
Rebecca Cambreleng is an attorney who represents the Portland Public School paraeducators, Percich and a third paraeducator, Valarie McNair, who teaches in the Gresham-Barlow School District.
“I was appalled and concerned for the safety of the students and the employees, the educators in these classrooms,” said Cambreleng. …
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