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Treatment, like being locked in windowless cells or stuffed into bags. Now, some of the footage youre about to see is not easy to watch. Heres abcs brian ross with a nightline investigates. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows a High School Student by the name on andre mccollins, in the lower right of the screen, about to go through what his school calls skin Shock Therapy for misbehavior. About 60 volts of therapy. There are no National Standards for the punishments or restraints used on school children, including those like andre, with severe behavioral difficulty. I cant believe they call themselves humans and do such a thing to someone who is sew vulnerable. Reporter it is an extreme example, but perfectly legal. An abc news investigation found that only 17 states have specific laws that protect students from harsh, some say barbaric methods of restraint and other techniques. Some day, were all i think were all going to look back, were going to say, can you believe what we did here . Why are they red marks all over him . Reporter in dallas, this video was made by a mother of a 4yearold, as he tried get a staff member to let go of her boy. In kentucky, a mother found her autistic 8yearold son had been stuffed into a duffle back like this one, specially made to restrain children. And schools across the country are investing in specially built seclusion rooms, like this one, where Young Students can be locked up for hours. Theyd lock you in there and it was dock. Theres no windows. You are just stuck in there for the whole day. Reporter at the age of 11, giordanos all too well what can happen. Its scary. Really scary. Even for the bravest person in the world, its still really scary. Reporter now, some members of congress are trying to get such techniques prohibited or restricted by federal law. There are thousands of children that have been traumatized, they have been injured. Reporter but its opposed as too restrictive by school administrators. They say they need a range of techniques to deal with autistic stude students and others that are being main streamed into public schools. They tend to act out. And when they do act out, sometimes they become a danger to themselves or dangers to others. Reporter this man agreed some of the techniques being used, including the electric shock seen on the tape are, indeed, too much. Theyre horrendous. It makes me sick. Reporter he admitted some teachers do need more training. But he defended the use of some of the restraints others call barbaric, including the seclusion or scream rooms. If the situation warrants it, in order to protect the child from hurting himself reporter you dont think thats barbaric . Then im a barbarian. Reporter but all too often, students have died after being restrained. The most recent, 16yearold corey foster, of new york city. A surveillance tape showed the young man at a Residential School for students with special needs as he apparently refused to stop playing basketball. Teachers and staff surround him. One, two, three, four, five. Reporter and then, says his mother, sheila foster, they forced him to the ground. And now hes down. Pulling him down, yeah. Reporter the school says its staff used what they call a correctly performed and state approved therapeutic hold. And only after other deescalation techniques failed with corey. There was nothing therapeutic about that. Reporter a short time later, corey foster was dead. The medical examiner ruled it an accident, that corey died of cardiac arrest while being subdued. Just looking at these pictures, knowing that i wont feel him hug me anymore, say, i love you mommy. Yes. Its hard. Reporter the Centennial School in bethlehem, pennsylvania, says there is an alternative to the physical, hands on approach used in so many schools. Here, there are no seclusion rooms. And teachers almost never use any restraint, even though the students here all have a history of trouble or violence at other schools. But that isnt fair reporter we watched as one student, 9yearold vinny, started acting up in the classroom. The teacher separated him from the others but never put a hand on vinny. We walked away. We reminded him to use a calm body and polite words. Reporter and that worked . It did. It may take awhile but it is better than putting my hands on him. Reporter thats the philosophy that the schools director would like to see spread across the country. So, you doubt think these restraints, these seclusion rooms, you dont think they work . I do not. I think they contribute to the problem. Reporter how so . They make children angrier. They make children resentful. They make children want to engage in more aggression, to get even. To get back. Reporter and we heard just that from six of the centennial students, including jordan. You felt scared and upset and you were already angry. Reporter they described how they said they were dealt with at previous schools. They cross your arms and they hold you like that. They had this really big man that pinned me to the ground. They would just literally just lay on top of you and you would just be laying there, cant move. It was really hard to breathe. Reporter do you think that kind of thing works . Is that no. No. No. Makes it worse. Reporter makes it worse . It makes things worse because thats how i get angry and then i feel like bursting into flames. It isnt a very good thing to be restrained, as all. I think sometimes when you get upset it is always nice to get, like, a good hug or something. Reporter but for now, what happens at this school is the exception, not the rule. 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Announcer nightline continues from new york city with terry moran. Well, the same way wonder bras dominated the 90s, the wildly popular spanx shape ware will go down in history as the iconic underthing of this decade. What started as a simple idea, a fresh take on the old girdle has now exploded into a billion dollar empire. And the brains of the operation . You may know her as the youngest woman ever to grace the forbes billionaire list. Heres abcs juju chang. Red carpet secret . Spanx. Spanx. Spanx. Reporter its the not so secret secret to looking slim and trim. You have got to wear spanx. Love them. Reporter that musthave undergarment. Spanx. Reporter celebrities cant stop blabbing about. Spanx. Best invention ever made. Reporter that word of mouth has paid off. Spanx now sucks in 250 Million Dollars in annual sales. With not one penny of advertising. I think the magnitude of all of it only hits me in moments. Reporter the woman behind all those shapely behinds, sara blakely, the inventor and founder of spanx. Its hard for me to absorb. Like, thats a product i created, you know . I created that. Reporter spanx is now to shape ware what kleenex is to tissue. A billion dollar household name. What what we hear the most from emails and phone calls is confidence. I feel confidence that i dont have normally. Just its a really great feeling. Reporter now, shes looking to take that great feeling to a onestop shopping experience. Come on in, ladies were open reporter blakely is opening spanx first ever stand alone stores. Like this one in king of prussia, p. A. Should victorias secret be worried . I think so. Reporter shes now taking on a new set of curves. Everything from yoga pants, swim suits and bras. Im wearing one of them right now. The bra is so comfortable. The idea was, bring it up to speed and get rid of back fat and have it not dig into their shoulders. So the rest of the bra is made out of panty hose. Hooks, wires, clasps free. Airport friendly. Reporter spanx has expanded to more than 200 products, sold in 13 different countries. The simple idea that undergarments can make or break an outfit has turned blakely, at 41, into a forbes cover girl. The worlds youngest selfmade female billionaire ever. Where do you put that in your head . I think i mostly giggle when i think about it, because it reminds me of those backdrops you would choose at the mall with your friends . You know, like reporter look, im sexiest woman alive. Right. Reporter her success had Humble Beginnings in clearwater, florida. I was always trying to figure out ways to make money and do little businesses. I mean, my first memory is drawing pictures with my friend on a rainy day and then selling them door to door. Reporter but her lifes biggest pivot point was traumatic. She witnessed her best friend get hit and killed by a car. In her grief, she turned to selfhelp tapes. I memorized all ten tames of wayne dyers how to be a no limit person. And that really changed the trajectory of my life. Reporter the tapes helped her cope with failure and rejection, like when she bombed the exam to get into law school. She spent seven years selling fax machines door to door. Sometimes people would be nasty and rip up my Business Card in my face. I would sit in my car and cry and put in motivational tape and usually just shift my thinking. Reporter and then, she had that ahha moment that would forever change her life. Sparked by a troublesome pair of cream colored pai eed pants. You could see the panty line every time i put them on, see the cellulite on the back of my thighs. I cut the feet out of control top panty hose one time. And i knew that that was the idea that id be asking for. Reporter so, with 5,000 in savings, she started cold calling hosiery mills. One guy called me after i made the rounds, said, i have decided to make your crazy idea. And i found out he ran it by his daughters over dinner and they said, dad, help this girl make it. Reporter a great idea with a catchy name. But why spanx . I knew instantly it was right, because my product was all about the butt and nobody forgot it. Reporter what were the runners up . Open toed delilahs. Reporter what . We would not be sitting here. I know, i realize that. Reporter as luck would have it, just two months into business, oprah anointed spanx footless panty hose one of her favorite things of 2,000. I love spanx. Reporter and the rocket had been ignited. Orders all day and all night. Reporter from a onewoman business to a shape ware empire in just over a decade. I fast forward all these years later and to stand in front of my own store is a real emotional moment. Reporter her husband says shes a business titan because she still listens to her intuition. She didnt go to Harvard Business school. She just trusts her gut. She entered a maledominated space with no business experience and said, im going to go for it. Reporter blakely wants to launch a new generation of female entrepreneurs. For now, through a starter program called leg up. And its my way to pay the oprah moment forward. So, this is a girl named lindsay. She invented a flipflop that reporter oh, cool. The key to blake lips success is all about taking that lightbulb moment and keeping it glowing. If you are in search of your idea, put on your awareness glasses, look at things differently. I mean, there are Million Dollars ideas everywhere. Reporter for nightline, im juju chang in new york. What an allamerican Success Story there. Thanks to juju for that. Up next, british soccer sup superstar David Beckham on family life, his career and bending it one last time for the l. A. Galaxy. How advanced is the new ford fusion . Well. It has outstanding performance and handling. And it offers a plugin hybrid that gets a projected 100 mpge. Of course, theres still one thing it cant do. Introducing the entirely new ford fusion. Its an entirely new idea of what a car can be. It was just six years ago that british soccer star David Beckham made the bombshell move stateside, helping ignite a sharp uptick in American Interest in his sport. Well, this week he announced hell be leaving the l. A. Galaxy, but hes not hanging up his legendary cleats for good. Our Sister Network espns resident soccer star julie foudy brings us this nightline interview. David beckham will no longer be bending it for the los angeles galaxy. Nobody else in the world does it quite like he does. Reporter when you first arrived, did you ever have those moments of, what am i doing here . Did i make the right decision . When i first arrived, i was excited. When i played my first game, i was like, okay, this is going to be tough. This is going to be tough. I knew that coming here was always going to be a challenge. And i knew that it was going to be a challenge that i was going to enjoy, because the moment i stepped foot on u. S. Soil, the moment i stood in front of the press that was here on the first day that i arrived, the moment that i met my teammates, i knew that i made the right decision. Mr. David beckham. Reporter i remember that first press conference. You were trying desperately to say soccer instead of football. The most important thing is my family. The second thing is the foot the soccer. Ill get used to that at some point. I still call it football because to me, it is football. We also have a young up and comer on the team, a guy named David Beckham. He is tough. In fact, it is a rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear. Im just a soul oh lord please dont let me be misunderstood reporter how did the decision to move on go over with victoria and the kindkids . They understand it. The other half always goes through difficult times because we are always away. My wife is a working wife and i love that about her. Shes a working mom, shes the most amazing mom to her children. Shes a hard working lady. Reporter i know youve been quiet on whats next but what area of the world entices you the most to play in . I honestly dont know yet. I feel very honored at 37 years old im still having the top clubs that have come in and wanted to talk to me. Its kind of amazed me. I came here six years ago, i said that i was committed to being an ambassador for this game and for this league, for this country and for around the world and thats never going to change. David beckham. Thanks to julie foudy. You can watch beckhams last game this saturday on espn. Thank you for watching abc news. Check in for good morning america. Were always online at abcnews. Com. Jimmy kimmel is next. See you tomorrow. Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live martin short. Day three, there was a rash that went like that. And id be like sorry, i cant play today, coach. And from life of pi, suraj sharma. Suraj. Suraj. Yeah. Your mother isnt your friend