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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Bad Case of Seclusion and Restraint in Kentucky

From Kentucky comes a story about seclusion and restraintWKYT in Lexington reports:
A young Kentucky boy and his mother have become the center of a national petition after she says a school employee put her son in a bag.
Sandra Baker says her nine-year-old son Chris, who has autism, was placed in the bag as punishment for acting out at school in Mercer County. Since then hundreds of people from across the country have signed a petition in support of the family....
You can read the online petition by following this link:http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-board-of-education-of-mercer-county-kentucky