VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia Beach is reviewing a proposed policy that would prohibit seclusion rooms in Virginia Beach City Public Schools buildings, even those used by contractors.
The board’s hearing of the policy review committee’s recommendation comes after a Virginia Beach mother filed a $150 million lawsuit against Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs (SECEP), alleging her 11-year-old son, who had autism, was mistreated at Virginia Beach’s Pembroke Elementary School just days before he died.
The complaint included pictures of what the lawsuit alleges was a space where the child was confined – boxed in with furniture bound together with heavy-duty straps…