NY: State finds school district held 5 students in wooden boxes

by kids1stadvocac | May 19, 2026 | Restraint & Seclusion, State

MSN A public school district in northern New York broke state education regulations at least six times when it chose to confine students with disabilities in padded, wooden boxes in the classroom, an investigation by the New York State Education Department found. The...

NY orders broad reform of public school that held Native children with disabilities in wooden boxes

by kids1stadvocac | May 19, 2026 | Restraint & Seclusion, State

NPR Rumors spread on social media over the winter: School kids with disabilities in the Salmon River Central School District, including Akwesasne Mohawk children, were being confined by special education teachers in wooden boxes. Sarah Konwahahawi Herne was...

FDA may finally make it illegal to shock Autistic kids as punishment

by kids1stadvocac | May 5, 2026 | Federal

Mother Jones In March 2024, the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden introduced a new rule that would have banned, after decades, the use of electric shocks on disabled children as a form of punishment. A ban on forcibly shocking kids—which the...

Schools are supposed to limit using restraint and seclusion to discipline kids – but parents I spoke with say the practice is wildly misused

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 21, 2026 | Federal, Restraint & Seclusion

The Conversation “Jessica,” the adoptive mother of a third-grade student, was shocked when she discovered that her daughter had spent over 100 hours locked in a room alone at her North Carolina public school. School staff locked the child in a room by herself after...

CT: Blue Room: Restraining and secluding the state’s most vulnerable students

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 7, 2026 | Restraint & Seclusion, State

Inside Investigator On May 20, 2024, teachers and administrators at Hazardville Memorial School in Enfield called the police on a five-year-old in kindergarten. The call to 911 was placed at 9:57 am. By that time, teachers and special education instructors had been...