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Fred Clasen-Kelly

'I'm not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion

Hannah Russell, a former special education teacher, holds the hands of her two children at home in North Carolina. She says that even when parents present pictures of injured children following restraint and seclusion, school systems will say "it didn't happen." (Kate Medley/KFF Health News)

Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child's mom.

His mother, Michelle Staten, says her son, who has autism and other conditions, reacted as many children with disabilities would when he was confined to the seclusion room at Buckhorn Creek Elementary.

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