MURRAYVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out."Cafety
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Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms ( Georgia )
MURRAYVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out."The Shocking Truth
At the Judge Rotenberg Center, students who misbehave receive electric shocks powerful enough to sear their skin. What's even more unbelievable is how the moms and dads of the kids there feel about the Canton school.Military academy findings at odds ( Victory Forge Military Academy )
PORT ST. LUCIE — Florida Department of Children and Families officials say students at Victory Forge Military Academy face a high risk to their welfare, but police say the use of corporal punishment at the school doesn't amount to abuse.
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Rotenberg records reportedly are seized
( MA , Judge Rotenberg )State Police seized documents late last week from the offices of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton that are related to a prank phone call last summer that led two students to wrongfully receive dozens of punishing electrical shocks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the investigation.Child Welfare in Philadelphia: Struggling with kids' safety out of state
Last spring, Philadelphia sent a veteran inspector to check out a Connecticut facility that cared for some of the city's most severely mentally handicapped children.
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