Restrained Autistic Student dies on bus

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Like I said I do not know but if I would hazard a guess I would guess one of four general possibilities, deliberate cold blooded murder is not one of them.

1. Poor Training

2. They lost their temper and lost control

3. They were trying to hurt but not kill him

4. Preexisting medical condition

5. Some combination of 1 through 4

If two or three happened the workers need to be prosecuted, if 4 happened and the school knew about, it some administrators need to be prosecuted If 1 happened the school needs to be sued.

If the deceased had a preexisting condition but it was not known, should they have? This is complicated as people die from previously unknown conditions all the time. If the school hired quack doctors the probably should get sued, but even that is complicated if it is a public school as taxpayers might have not funded them properly.

If you think I am being harsh all I am doing is asking for accountability for professionals whose job description is partially about protecting students from themselves just as you want from the disabled students.

Ezra's in a different school situation than most kids who are in "special classes." He is in a school which specializes exclusively in (probably mostly) moderate-to-severe autistic kids. All the kids there are classified as those who have "significant special needs."

His experience will probably be somewhat different from those in more generalized "special classes."

Any authority figure, of any kind, who places another vulnerable person - especially one who is in a heightened state of agitation - in restraints is then fully responsible for the safety of that person until such time as they are removed and the person is in a place of safety. They have an absolute duty of care to protect that person irrespective of the detained person's actions - There is no leeway in this, legally they are responsible. If a lay-person deprives the liberty and freedom of a person they they have a legal responsibility to know what they are doing and how to do it safely and properly in any eventuality.

Laying a person down whilst their hands are restrained, a very very common practice, puts a great deal of extra pressure on the chest area and makes it difficult to breathe; the shallow breaths do not bring in enough oxygen and this in turn can add to the fear and anxiety and the person can die very quickly. Their rights to detain him are more than matched by their responsibility to protect him. The young person's actions are irrelevant to this, the bottom line was they asserted their authority, placed him in a potentially dangerous situation, failed in their duty and obligation to protect him and should face charges accordingly.

I'm quite sure they won't, we already know that autistic lives aren't worth as much as 'normal' lives so I'm quite sure the adults will walk away with sympathies ringing in their ears, "Well if he hadn't have fought like that he wouldn't be dead! You must feel awful, so sorry for you!" Whilst totally ignoring the reason he died was because he was failed by the adults, carers, supporters or whatever they want to call themselves when he needed them most.

There is no need to restrain autistic people, not any more, proper use of positive behaviour support approaches render that approach outdated and barbaric.

Why did autistic San Bernardino student die in school bus struggle?

If he was in a harness then they would not have had to wrestle with him too much. He had severe autism and severe intellectual disability like I figured. I still seriously doubt it was anything anyone did that caused the death. Probably something like a brain aneurysm.