Alternative School Sued For Allegedly Shackling Students To Poles For Hours

[ccharles000]

JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates have filed suit against Jackson's public school district, claiming officials at one alternative school respond to minor violations by shackling children to railings and poles for hours at a time.

Critics of the Capital City Alternative School in Jackson say the allegedly excessive punishment at the schools makes such students more likely to drop out of school – and commit crimes later in life.

The Southern Policy Law Center filed suit on Wednesday in U.S. District Court. The suit names Jackson Public Schools and Capital City Alternative School officials and seeks class-action status on behalf of all of the school's students.

The complaint says the punishments violate the Constitution and school board policy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/miss-school-corporal-punishment_n_873555.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[TheWraith]

1. Whenever I hear about schools like this, I have the urge to torture the proprietors.

Seriously. :mad:

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Festivus 101

Cheers!

[Snoutport]

3. Stories like this is why many special ed classes now have cameras

They make you paranoid about picking your nose, but nobody can get away with pulling crap like shackles.

My heart goes out to those kids. I teach tough kids and I know there is never any reason or excuse to treat a student like that.

[Odin2005]

4. Autism Rights activists exposed a special needs school in NY doing abusive shit...

...a couple years ago. I believe that shithole is closed down, now.

[sakabatou]

5. I would like to have mor information

But if this is correct, that's horrendous.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. We used to have Pre-Schools. Now it seems we're working on Pre-Prisons.

Why not cut out all the messy middle and determine who is prison bound in middle school?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Very Dickens