Fairfax, Virginia: School Cop Puts 5yo Special Needs Boy in CHOKEHOLD for Singing in Class

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School Cop Puts 5yo Special Needs Boy in CHOKEHOLD for Singing in Class

7 October 2021

The taxpayers of Fairfax, Virginia were put on notice this week that they will be shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to pay for a school resource officer who couldn’t control his anger and attacked a 5-year-old little boy — for singing in Spanish class. Pamela Ononiwu, 37, a mother of three, recently settled a lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools for the horrifying mistreatment her son suffered while in their care. Ononiwu’s nightmare started on Oct. 3, 2018 when she went to pick up her son, listed as DO in the lawsuit, to bring him to a dentist’s ...

School Cop Puts 5yo Special Needs Boy in CHOKEHOLD for Singing in Class

For singing in class, a 5-year-old boy was savagely attacked and placed in a chokehold by the school resource officer.

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Background:

Parents sue Fairfax schools, allege improper seclusion and restraint of students with disabilities

8 october 2019

Parents and disability rights groups are suing the largest school system in Virginia, alleging students with disabilities experience discrimination, trauma and physical harm through the excessive and improper use of seclusion and restraint in Fairfax County Public Schools. The parents, Jennifer Tidd, Pamela Ononiwu and Ashley Thomas, are accusing the 189,000-student school system of using the practices to “silence, detain, segregate, and punish students with disabilities,” according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Fairfax school officials said they have completed a thorough and independent review of seclusion and restraint guidelines, ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/parents-sue-fairfax-schools-allege-improper-seclusion-and-restraint-of-students-with-disabilities/2019/10/08/066166dc-e9f8-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html

 

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A mom takes action after her 5-year-old was put in a chokehold at school

5 October 2021

Pamela Ononiwu said she couldn’t believe her eyes when she went to Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station, Virginia, to pick up her 5-year-old son for a dentist appointment on Oct. 3, 2018. Before she could reach the vestibule near the principal’s office, where her son was waiting, she could hear him in distress. “To my shock and horror, I found my son being put in a chokehold,” Ononiwu, 37, recalled. “This school resource officer was holding him at a 90 degree angle. My son kept trying to kick to get out of it, and the tighter the grip got.” ...

A mom takes action after her 5-year-old was put in a chokehold at school

Pamela Ononiwu said she couldn’t believe her eyes when she went to Fairview Elementary School to pick up her 5-year-old son for a dentist appointment in 2018.

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Mom sues Virginia school system after arriving to collect five-year-old son with ADHD for dentist to find school resource officer had put boy in CHOKEHOLD because he wouldn't stop singing in Spanish class

6 October 2021

• Pamela Ononiwu sued the Fairfax County School Board after finding her five-year-old son, who has ADHD, held in a chokehold by a school resource officer
• The officer was called to the kindergartner's classroom because he would not stop singing during his Spanish class
• Ononiwu joined two other parents in suing the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system for their restraint and seclusion procedures on students
• The lawsuit, which named Ononiwu's son as DO, was recently settled with monetary relief and major changes to the school's policy
• An independent review found that students in special education programs and students of color are more likely to be disciplined
• Ononiwo advocates for the Keeping All Students Safe Act which would ban schools from physically restraining students in potentially life-threatening ways
• Fairfax County is one of America's richest school districts, and recently hit the headlines over its decision to push critical race theory

A mom has settled with a school district after arriving to pick her five year-old son up for a dentist's appointment to find he'd been put in a chokehold by staff. Pamela Ononiwu launched the lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia after seeing her son - named in court papers as DO - restrained by a school resource officer at Fairview Elementary School in October 2018 while crying. Staff members told her DO, who suffers from ADHD, had been put in the chokehold after refusing to stop singing loudly during Spanish class. 'To my shock and horror, ...

Mom sues VA schools after her son, 5, with ADHD, was put in CHOKEHOLD

A mother in Virginia sued the school system after a school security officer put her five-year-old son, who has ADHD, in a chokehold because he was singing loudly in Spanish class and wouldn't stop.

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