SALISBURY, Md. (AP) Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. Over the past eight years, the process has been used […]
In some Maryland schools, students as young as 5 are being handcuffed and sent to the hospital for psychiatric evaluations under the use of emergency petitions.
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out,
Schools nationwide are handcuffing children and sending them to hospital emergency rooms for a psychiatric evaluation in response to behaviors prompted by.