From the Jackson Hole (Wyoming) Star Tribune:

The Wyoming Department of Education has ordered changes in special education procedures in Cheyenne after parents of a sixth-grader complained that their son had been held face-down for 20 minutes.

Kim and Clarence Styvar filed a complaint in May alleging abuse by staff at the district’s Therapeutic Learning Center at Pioneer Park Elementary School. They said staff at the center didn’t follow procedures when the boy, who has emotional and behavioral disabilities, was taken aside after refusing to run during physical education on Jan. 11.

… Kim Styvar said she arrived at the school and saw five adults holding her son down.

Staff members said they were trying to keep the boy from hurting himself.

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