Re: Heads up in TN!!!

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Subject: Heads up in TN!!!

To: " imdsa " <mosaicds >

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 1:50 PM

 

Hi everyone! I'm wanted to give you heads up on what is going on in TN.

In case you may know someone that has a child with a special need that

lives in TN. I just copy and pasted....

~ mom to Adde 3 years old

Alert - Bill Permits Locking Students in Isolation

Submitted by Todd Hash on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 1:08pm.

in Disability Action NetworkEducationTN General Assembly

Legislation may be heard in the House Education K-12 Subcommittee on

Wednesday, February 10th at 10am that would allow Special Education

students to be locked alone in a room.  This would undo two years of

work that outlawed locking students with Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD,

and other disabilities in isolation rooms.

If your legislator sits on this subcommittee we are asking you to

make a call or send an email opposing House Bill 2538 by Tuesday.  A

list of subcommittee members and bill sponsors, the areas they serve

and their contact information is below.  When contacting your

legislators please be respectful and let them know you live in their district.

Key Points

This bill would make it legal to lock a special education student –

of any age or diagnosis – in isolation at risk to their health and

safety Contradicts health and safety codes that prohibit locking students in an

educational facility without a way outA child could be locked in an isolation

room without parental notificationThere is no requirement in the bill that

locked isolation only be used in an emergency situationsWith a locked door, a

student is trapped with no mechanism to call

for help if they are forgotten – even for a minute or two – by school

personnelPlaces all special education students at risk of locked isolation

For more information contact the Coalition at newstndisability (DOT) org

Bill Sponsors and Districts

Click a legislator's name to get their email and phone number

Rep. Glen Casada - parts of on County

Sen. Jack - on and parts of son - Senate Bill 2517

K-12 Subcommitee and Districts

Les Winningham, Chair - Clay, , Picket, , and *

Ron Loller, Vice Chair - Shelby*

Judy Barker - Obion, Lake, and Dyer*

Tommie Brown - Hamilton*

Bill Dunn - Knox*

Beth Harwell - son*

Hawk - Unicoi, Greene*

Hensley - Lawrence, , Wayne*

Ulysses - Shelby*

Mark Maddox - Weakly, Carroll*

nie - Shelby*

Terri Lynn Weaver - DeKalb, , Macon