Abuse In Public Education Essay

Parents have worked for decades to get their children with disabilities mainstreamed into public school systems and to avoid placing them in institutionalized settings. Now these parents are finding out that their children are being increasingly abused in public systems, according to a report in the New York Times, July 15. Teachers and administrators are using controls such as restraints, isolation rooms, straps, and manhandling – exactly the ones parents feared private institutions would
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