Restraint & Seclusion Spikes in HS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get a lord of this headline. It's crazy an h
Register dot com. Hamden Clinton schools see sharp rise in
physical restraints while east Haven defies trend. That headline is
a jeb. First of all, we're talking about schools. What
do you mean physical restraints? And I love the while

(00:21):
East Haven defies the trend. In other words, the kids
are like, try it, come on, seriously, restrain me. I
went to East David's Restraint. I restrained, although sand the
boys when I was a kid, you don't want to
mix it up with them like it was known. We
used to go to Daniel's Run. There was a club

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around here back in the day, and the boys would
knock your ass out there. They're tough kids back in
the day. I mean now it's people getting shot and
killed right after school here in Hampden and that's not
lost on me. But they say the use of restraint
and seclusion. Seclusion in Hampden and Clinton schools rose sharply

(01:04):
last year. New state data shows part of a troubling
yeah yeah, statewide trend that has been growing in recent years. Okay,
hold on, we're a straint and seclusion in high schools up.
What are the other things that we did this week.
There were a lot of things that are up, but

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Chris Murphy and Lamar keep saying everything's down. What were
the other things? Like, we did three up stories this week,
there was one just yesterday was its early release. This time,
I'm like, oh, that's up to but I hear everything
is down. Hampden Public Schools reported this is insane to me.
Four hundred and forty four restraint and seclusion incidents involving

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fifty one students. This is the twenty twenty three to
twenty four school year, a sixty percent spike from the
year before Clinton jumped. Even Clinton jumped even more dramatically.
That's stopped my neck of the woods. Just a couple
towns over love that town. Two hundred and sixty one

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incidents involving fifteen students last year. Nearly does a number
sound lower, right, but nearly four times the seventy one
cases they had the previous year. The numbers don't touch Hamden,
but where Clinton was at the year prior. While it
was a leap both districts, they say helped fuel a

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broader statewide surgeon physical interventions. These kids are like animals. Meanwhile,
Hampden schools do not use seclusion rooms. They're removed from
the classrooms and learning environments. Take it into the hallway
or escort it into the main office. We have seclusion rooms.
What happened to It happened taking place right in the classroom.

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You sat in a chair facing the wall in the classroom.
You listen to the The lesson continued, and you're like,
I am looking at it. I couldn't be closer to
this wall. And you acted a chort and you thought
about Dad's gonna beat who tonight's gonna suck at home.

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Bucking the statewide trend, East Taven Public schools saw restraint
and seclusion incidents plummet. Did they plumme it or did
reporting them plummet