angelmom
The love stays...forever in our hearts
Hope this didn't already have a thread - I couldn't find one if it does. Having a son this age it really bothered me. Why is this legal???
http://www.ajc.com/services/content...ader_suicide.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
Jonathan King told teachers at his north Georgia alternate public school that he couldnt stand being locked within the four concrete walls of a small seclusion room.
In 2004, just weeks after threatening suicide, the 13-year-old eighth-grader hanged himself in the room, using a cord a teacher provided him to hold up his pants, court records show.
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Phil Hartley, Alpines lead attorney, said there is no law addressing the use of seclusion rooms in schools and that under Georgia law the school cant be held accountable for Jonathans actions. Jonathan had threatened suicide several times and told teachers it was in jest, he said.
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Students stay at Alpine for a few months or years before returning to a traditional school setting. The most problematic are sometimes re-admitted.
Jonathan was in and out of Alpine three times.
During his final two-month stay, he was put in a seclusion room 19 times, according to court documents.
Although half of those sessions were less than 25 minutes, he was twice put in a room for more than seven hours a day, records show.
According to Howard Sandy Addis, director of the Pioneer education agency that oversees Alpine, procedures stated that seclusion rooms be used as therapy not punishment and as a last resort. Students also were not to be in the rooms for longer than 15 minutes without administrative approval, but no maximum limit had been implemented, Addis said.
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http://www.ajc.com/services/content...ader_suicide.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
Jonathan King told teachers at his north Georgia alternate public school that he couldnt stand being locked within the four concrete walls of a small seclusion room.
In 2004, just weeks after threatening suicide, the 13-year-old eighth-grader hanged himself in the room, using a cord a teacher provided him to hold up his pants, court records show.
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Phil Hartley, Alpines lead attorney, said there is no law addressing the use of seclusion rooms in schools and that under Georgia law the school cant be held accountable for Jonathans actions. Jonathan had threatened suicide several times and told teachers it was in jest, he said.
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Students stay at Alpine for a few months or years before returning to a traditional school setting. The most problematic are sometimes re-admitted.
Jonathan was in and out of Alpine three times.
During his final two-month stay, he was put in a seclusion room 19 times, according to court documents.
Although half of those sessions were less than 25 minutes, he was twice put in a room for more than seven hours a day, records show.
According to Howard Sandy Addis, director of the Pioneer education agency that oversees Alpine, procedures stated that seclusion rooms be used as therapy not punishment and as a last resort. Students also were not to be in the rooms for longer than 15 minutes without administrative approval, but no maximum limit had been implemented, Addis said.
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