Restraints: A Gut-wrenching Case
Of all the tales of restraints gone wrong I heard while reporting this story on Texas special education students, this one is the worst:
For 14-year-old Cedric Napoleon, food was an emotional trigger.
His biological parents had starved him and forced him to dig through trashcans for food. By the time he went into foster care, he was so traumatized that he hoarded bags of chips from the kitchen and stole food at his Killeen middle school.
But when Cedric stopped working in his special education classroom one morning in 2002, his teacher punished him by delaying his lunch. At ...
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