Parents with children in special education programs say that schools have restrained the students without their knowledge. A House bill would help with that by banning the use of restraint on children under the age of 10.
Texas legislators filed bipartisan bills to prohibit physical, chemical and mechanical restraints of children under the age of 10 by school security personnel.
Parents of students with disabilities gathered in the state capitol to share heartbreaking stories of the effects of restraints on their kids and ask lawmakers to pass laws that would better protect students from the use of restraints in schools.