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A local mother has reached out to the media after she says a school went overboard while restraining her child. Isaiah Moore came home from Oak Hammock K-8 last April looking like he had just been in a fight. But the autistic boy’s injuries didn’t come from a scuffle - he was restrained by a school staffer.
Moore’s mother obtained a tape from a security camera at the school. She says it shows the 7-year-old being forced into a room, where she believes her son was violently restrained.
A few moments later, the video shows the disabled boy emerging from the room with school staffers and being dragged down the hallway by a behavior analyst. The boy is holding his back, as if he were in pain. Moore says her son was unjustly restrained.
The forceful action left the 7-year-old with injuries, including many bruises on his arms and a busted lip. The boy’s mother says he was restrained for simply walking out of his classroom.
Moore is demanding the school board change it’s restraining policy and she’s taking it all the way to the State Board of Education.
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1 Anna // Nov 27, 2007 at 4:04 am
Restraining should be emergency last resort procedure. Here in Florida and across the country they use it as punishment for disabled children. I was sitting in the front office when this man did this to my child. The child was sitting on the walkway like he was asked to telling the man my mother is in the front office.
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