More and more news broadcasts focus on critical problems proliferating in schools around the country-bullying, teachers having sex with students, sexual harassment, student accidents, and students getting killed on class on class trips.
As a school safety expert and education consultant to attorneys, I’ve faced an endless variety of challenges. The only common thread is that when standards of supervision in school are lax, children get hurt. Read more…
More and more news broadcasts focus on critical problems proliferating in schools around the country-bullying, teachers having sex with students, sexual harassment, student accidents, and students getting killed on class on class trips.
As a school safety expert and education consultant to attorneys, I’ve faced an endless variety of challenges. The only common thread is that when standards of supervision in school are lax, children get hurt. Read more…
Recently, the Prescott Unified School District in Arizona announced that it planned to dismantle a padded isolation room at one of its elementary schools that was used to isolate students with disabilities as punishment. This was a six-foot by six-foot room in a public school!
Last month, when I conducted an on-site review of a private school as part of my legal consultation as an education expert with an attorney on a school shooting matter, I came upon two isolation rooms that were padded with black padding and lit by a 40-watt florescent bulb. The principal told me that these are used as “incentives for the kids to follow the rules.” Read more…