I do not give my consent for” seclusion and restraint”

Do you have a "no consent for seclusion or restraint letter" on file with your childs school ?

Do you think it can never happen to your child?  Your childs school is really helpful and understanding and would never do this?

Think again.  In the heat of a moment, in the middle of a meltdown  or another behavior ,  stress response it happens!  Even here in Davis!  It happens everywhere.

Unfortunately most teachers and staff are not properly trained to work with situations like this and more importantly are not properly trained to be proactive and understand all the ways to work with our kids that supports them,  and can recognize all the subtleties of dysregulation to be proactive and connect, co regulate before the bigger stress response/behavior gets to this point.   It can be done.
We need to protect our children from unsafe practices.

Excellent article and a must read !  It is too important for our kids safety and well being.

https://www.inclusionevolution.com/child-needs-no-consent-letter-restraint-seclusion/

This is a comment from another parent regarding this article:
         I can't believe this is happening in schools.  The woman at the desk didn't bat an eye.  This must be the norm at that school????????

This is my response to her comment:
              People see the child as the problem.  So of course the adults must react this way, ugh according to this thinking.  It is the child's issue.   If they just listened,  if they just did what they were told to do, if they just would have stopped when I told them to.  This is what happens everyday in our classrooms and schools.
These instances are just ones caught on camera.  It is sad.  And is causing so much damage to our already fragile children.   Our schools need to be trained and educated in proactive solutions and training of how to properly support our kids.  I know so many teachers who feel ill equipped to properly educate and work with most of our special needs kids.  They were trained for general ed and have no idea how to support the many kids in our gen ed classrooms that have some form of a disability that impacts their learning and   education. The paras supporting our kids in a 1 to 1 or 2 to 1 situation are also not trained in how to work with our kids.   This sets our kids up for failure from the beginning.  So when our kids are expected to do something or to follow a direction that they may not understand,  or their nervous system is already on high alert due to the full class environment,  the lights, the sounds, the smells, etc....so they r one demand away from a meltdown or behavior,  boom.
But yet the teacher has 29 other students to focus on.  How is it possible??  I do not fault teachers at all.  The system is flawed from the beginning and not set up to properly support and educate many of our kids.   We have to change this.