Students across Indiana are secluded and restrained thousands of times each year. But their data about those practices is incomplete and state oversight is lacking.
An 11-year-old boy was isolated inside a room inside his school for roughly 12 hours over the course of two days early last fall. The boy is on the autism spectrum. And it wasn’t the first time he was removed from his class and forced into seclusion.The boy was secluded for roughly 15 hours over the