Abusive & Unnecessary Restraints in Public School/Victim talks

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http://www.theforecaster.net/content/pnms-restraintfollowup-081110http://www.theforecaster.net/content/pnms-restraintfollowup-081110'I thought I was the only one': 3 kids, 3 years, nearly 100 school restraints

By Parkhurst Aug 10, 2010 10:40 amSCARBOROUGH — Corbeau vividly remembers being restrained when he was a student in Scarborough.

"The hardest part is when you're going down," Corbeau said. "They count, so you know it's coming. You struggle and fight. That's how people break things, that's when kids and teachers get hurt."

As a child, Corbeau, now 22, was diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance

Disorder and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. He was later diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He graduated from Scarborough High School two years ago, but attended

several residential and day treatment programs for most of his school years.

But he attended public school in Scarborough on and off, and he's the

first to admit he was a difficult kid with serious behavioral issues.

"I was a big kid," Corbeau said. "The staff were intimidated by me."

As a result, he said, staff were rough with him, often leaving him bruised and rug-burned after multiple restraints. Corbeau said this only

encouraged him to fight harder.

And he was deeply upset, he said, when he read recently about Baizley, a young boy subjected to restraints in Scarborough.

"Realizing kids are still growing up that way, it made me mad," he said. "I thought I was the only one."