How Public Schools Treat Special Needs Students: Handcuffs, Scream Rooms And Duct TapeMichael Snyder One of the key measures for any society is how it treats those that are most vulnerable. And the way that we are treating our special needs children is sorely lacking. Hopefully articles like this one will help bring awareness and change. Yes, there are some education professionals that have a real heart for special needs kids and that do a great job working with them. Unfortunately, there simply is not enough of them. A lot of public school officials that end up dealing with special needs children have received little or no specialized training, and the consequences can be absolutely disastrous. For example, just check out the ordeal that one poor 13-year-old autistic boy endured in Virginia Can you imagine? In one instance, officials at the school broke the boys hand as they were forcing him inside the scream room I would never allow my child to go to a school where they would employ such tactics. But these days most parents have no idea what is going on at school. They just assume that their children are being treated with respect. At the school that this young boy attended, seclusion was used on kids a whopping 559 times during 2011, and physical restraints were used 177 times. In other cases elsewhere in the nation, special needs children are being openly mocked and ridiculed. Sometimes even the teachers join in. Just check out the following example from the state of Illinois All of this is very shocking, but it did not occur in a vacuum. The truth is that these are just more symptoms of the overall moral decay that is eating away at our society like a cancer. We dont treat special needs children with the kindness, love and respect they deserve because our hearts are growing cold and wicked. Another issue that deserves to be addressed is why there are so many special needs kids in our schools today. When I was growing up, I did not know of a single special needs child in our neighborhood. And I did not know of a single special needs kid in my entire high school. But now they make up 12 percent of the entire public school population and that number is growing quickly. Could it be possible that there is something that we are doing to our children that is causing this? This next chart comes from vactruth.com And since we inject them directly into the bloodstreams of our children, these ingredients largely bypass the amazing filtering systems that our human bodies possess. So could it be possible that there is a link between these vaccines and the unprecedented rise in autism that we are seeing? I have personally read hundreds of stories from devastated parents that say that their kids were perfectly healthy and normal until they got their shots. We are giving our children way too many vaccines way too soon, and it is creating a nightmare. So what do you think about all this? Please feel free to share your opinion by posting a comment below This article first appeared here at the American Dream. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 