Blue Room: Restraining and secluding the state’s most vulnerable students

Blue Room: Restraining and secluding the state’s most vulnerable students

On May 20, 2024, teachers and administrators at Hazardville Memorial School in Enfield called the police on a five-year-old in kindergarten. The call to 911 was placed at 9:57 am. By that time, teachers and special education instructors had been handling a situation with five-year-old Cody (fake name) for about an hour. That morning, Cody had kicked a classmate, at which point teachers evacuated the classroom, called in the school’s crisis inter…