[“GAO” = Government Accountability Office, United States of America]
From a new entry on the Mother Jones blog:
GAO: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids
— By Jen Phillips | Tue May 19, 2009 11:07 AM PST
A new GAO report shows that the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts isn’t the only place where developmentally disabled and emotionally troubled kids have been physically punished and restrained. The [new GAO] report, which came out today, details cases at public and private schools across the nation where children as young as five have been sat on, lashed to chairs, isolated for hours, starved, and humiliated as punishment for actions like “slouching and hand waving.” In dozens of cases, these punitive measures resulted in students’ deaths…
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