Now 21, Terrence has severe cognitive and physical disabilities and uses a wheelchair. He could not tell his parents what was happening in his classroom. But what the Keller, Texas, family learned over years of legal battles led to a $1 million jury verdict against the school district, and eventually to a law that makes Texas the first state in the country to require cameras to be installed in self-contained special education classrooms at parent or teacher request.
That law, which went into effect this school year, has raised complex questions about the cost to districts, student and teacher privacy, and even whether cameras will meet the goal of protecting children...
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/09/21/cameras-in-special-ed-classrooms-a-complex.html
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I sure wish there had been cameras in the self-contained LAD classroom at Beverly Farms ES (circa 2004), when my child was abused multiple times by his teacher. The teacher had just been retrained in four-point restraint and had just done a stint at RICA, when she came to teach at Beverly Farms. She routinely put 5 and 6 year olds in four-point restraint for issues of non-compliance (not because they were an immanent danger to themselves or others). She also rolled 5 and 6 year olds in gym mats to restrain them and locked them (by themselves) in small sequestration rooms for an hour or more. She did all of this with the principal's knowledge and even worse... DID NOT REPORT ANY OF THIS TO US (THE PARENTS) AS REQUIRED BY LAW. When Gwen Mason was contacted about all this, Mason did what she always does... she swept it under the rug and promoted the principal to work at Carver in the Department of Special Education Services.
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