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Parents, students and advocates urge Blue Valley to clarify Policy 3522 on emergency safety interventions
Summary
Multiple parents, students and local advocates told the Blue Valley Board of Education on Oct. 13 that Policy 3522 — which governs emergency safety interventions and restraint — can punish compassionate responses to children in mental‑health distress and urged clearer language to preserve professional judgment and student dignity.
Several parents, students and advocates urged the Blue Valley Board of Education on Oct. 13 to revise Policy 3522 so school staff can respond compassionately to students experiencing severe emotional distress without risking discipline.
At the board's open forum, Jenny Stille, a Lakewood Middle School and Blue Valley parent, said the district's policy "supports teachers in treating kids in dysregulated states of mental trauma with such a lack of compassion and dignity," and asked the board to ensure that humane, de‑escalating responses are not treated as punishable restraints.
"If compassionate responses to these mental needs are punishable under Policy 3522, then the system is failing both our teachers and our students," Stille said.
Other speakers described similar…
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