Any NY filmmakers looking for a subject for a doc?

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Joe_Kras

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I saw this as a link to another listserve that I am on:

http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/06/abuse.nys.regs.htm

Although it reads as a joke, evidently the Board of Regents of NY have passed regulations permitting "Aversive Behavioral Interventions" to be used as discipline of students with disabilities. These include the use of the following:

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(i) application of noxious, painful, intrusive stimuli or activities intended to induce pain such as electric skin shock, ice applications, hitting, slapping, pinching, kicking, hurling, strangling, shoving, deep muscle squeezes or other similar stimuli;

(ii) any form of noxious, painful or intrusive spray, inhalant or tastes;

(iii) withholding sleep, shelter, bedding, bathroom facilities or clothing;

(iv) contingent food programs that include withholding meals or limiting essential nutrition or hydration or intentionally altering staple food or drink in order to make it distasteful;

(v) movement limitation used as a punishment, including but not limited to helmets and mechanical restraint devices;

(vi) the placement of a child unsupervised or unobserved in a room from which the student cannot exit without assistance; or

(vii) other stimuli or actions similar to the interventions described in subparagraphs (i) through (vi) of this paragraph." (Section 200.22(b) of the Regulations; pages 6-7 of the print document)

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Anyone in NY that's sitting at home looking for a good subject for a doc, I don't think you could come up with a better one than this.

The site above lists when and where public hearings will be held. Get in touch with some parents, interview a few experts, and try to get some interviews with the regents, and you've got a doc.

If I was in NY, I'd be all over this. We don't tolerate such treatment of POW's, but we'll allow it for disabled kids. If it wasn't so sick, I'd laugh.
 
In some states teachers are allowed to paddle the students. I don’t have any kids but if I did and a teacher did that to my kids I would make sure that the teacher gets locked up. This is also what these people deserve for arguing that torturing handicapped kids can help them.

I had a similar idea to make a documentary about kids getting abused in Juvenile Jails because a lot of people doesn’t know about it.
 
Until the early 1900's children were considered property, by and large, so you could do whatever you wanted to them. Also, with the high death rates for childhood diseases, people didn't get all that attached to their children until they got a little older.

Gradually things changed, and people realized that kids were people too, and had some rights.

It just seems so absurd, in a time when we wouldn't condone police choking or hitting suspects they were apprehending for doing something criminal, or accept similar behavior for treatment of prisoners of war that had been trying to kill us, that we would turn around and condone such treatment of kids that weren't being malicious at all, but because of disability were a little out of control.

It seems one of those situations of "See no evil".
 
To the 12-year-old friends planning to build themselves a den, the cherry tree seemed an inviting source of material.

But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed into the 20ft tree - then found themselves hauled into a police station and locked in cells for up to two hours.

Their shoes were removed and mugshots, DNA samples and mouth swabs were taken.
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What ever happened to common sense?
 
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