Families across the country are challenging a system they say has not only failed to educate and protect their children, but also endangered their lives.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against schools and districts as parents speak out against physical disciplinary methods that have injured or killed their children, ABC News reports. The families claim that an extensive abuse of harsh methods to restrain misbehaving students -- many with special needs -- has become a chronic problem in U.S. schools.
"I know I won't feel him hug me anymore, or say, 'I love you, mommy,'" Sheila Foster told ABC News of her son Corey, who died in April of cardiac arrest while being forced off a basketball court by school staff. "Someone has to be held accountable for this because my son is dead. And this shouldn't happen anymore to another child, to another family.'"
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