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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rules regarding restraints were written for special ed kids not 5 year old kindergarten students who are crying outside the door of the kindergarten classroom. I am a school psychologist and in the fall I get called to deal with a few kindergarten students who are crying outside the kinder classroom. Often times they won't let go of their parent. If the parent is there we have the parent carry the child into the classroom then the teacher or I hold the student as the parent leaves. If the parent leaves student outside the door and the student is crying and won't move we try talking first but usually it doesn't work. We gently move the student a few feet into the classroom. Most kids calms down in 5 to 10 minutes.  There is a big difference between a crying kinder student and an emotionally disturbed student. We never move ED students (unless they are in a dangerous place like the middle of the street) we wait them out.[/quote]

I have never worked in a place where the rules said they didn't apply to kindergarteners.  What state are you in that the law makes that distinction?

In my experience, kindergarteners with separation anxiety can easily be handled without being picked up.  Since it wasn't legal where I worked, we came up with other strategies.  For starters, why not ask the parents leave them inside the classroom, taking away the need to move them?[/quote]

Sometimes the parents would leave them in the classroom but sometimes the child would cling on very tightly to the parent (who often times was going to be late to work or had a toddler with them). The only way was to gently hold the child while the parent pulled away. Other times the parent could bring the child in and the child was left crying by car line or outside the door. A kid with severe anxiety would be treated differently. Talk to any preschool teacher and they often have to do the same thing during drop off.
According to the state of Maryland 
Physical restraint” does not include:
(i) Briefly holding a student to calm or comfort the student;
(ii) Holding a student’s hand or arm to escort the student safely from one area to another;
(iii) Moving a disruptive student who is unwilling to leave the area if other methods such as counseling have been unsuccessful; or
iv) Intervening in a fight in accordance with Education Article §7-307, Annotated Code of Maryland.
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