H.R.4247

Yesterday, the House approved the Keeping All Students Safe Act, a bipartisan bill providing comprehensive protection for children against abusive disciplinary actions at schools, such as restraints, drugging, or being isolated in a locked room.

Ken Calvert voted against this bipartisan bill. Ken Calvert voted for the continued use of abusive discipline in the classroom.

I believe that every child deserves to be treated with dignity. Schools need to use the many research-based, humane behavior techniques available.

The prohibited practices read shockingly like a page from the Inquisition. I don't know what is worse: that the need to end such abusive practices requires federal action, or the fact that 153 members of Congress – including my opponent Ken Calvert – saw fit to oppose ending these medieval methods.

Bill

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