A link to this story was shared with me earlier this week, and I'm still shaking my head. If you've ever dealt with children with learning disabilities, you know that sometimes a child can have trouble keeping their emotions and frustrations in check. But with a little compassion and understanding, those situations can be handled. Below is an example of a school NOT handling it. Let's hope these situations are few and far in between.
Rhonda
Mother sues Gresham-Barlow School District, police
Alleges officer used ‘excessive force’ to subdue 8-year-old son
By Rob Cullivan
The Gresham Outlook, Nov 17, 2010
The mother of a child with a learning disability who attended Highland Elementary School in the Gresham-Barlow School District in 2009 is suing three school officials as well as a Gresham police officer over how they handled her son when he became unruly in class.
The suit, filed by Leslie Vincent on Friday, Nov. 12, in U.S. District Court, claims the officer — with the help of two teachers — held the boy down and handcuffed him. The child, who was 8 at the time, “sustained physical injuries as a result of the excessive force,” the lawsuit says, including “scuff marks on his upper arm where (the officer) had forcefully grabbed him and scuff marks on his wrists from the forceful and prolonged application of the handcuffs.”
The suit also claims the school district discriminated against the boy because of his disability, “had an unofficial policy” of “locking students with learning or behavioral disabilities … out of their classrooms, leaving them to roam the hallways without guidance and supervision” and calling the police to “respond and intervene in routine student disciplinary matters.”
Read the rest of this incredible story here:
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=129001488999139900
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