Restraint and seclusion are not “behavior management”, they are signs the system has already failed. In this season two kickoff, Sarah and Jessica respond to a wave of recent news stories that expose what happens when school culture prioritizes control over child safety, and why the fallout is bigger than most people realize.

They unpack a disturbing string of cases, including a Pierce County principal resignation tied to a so-called “red room,” a Federal Way educator accused of assaulting a student in a hallway, a Greenwood County teacher charged after physically escalating an art-class incident, and a DOJ finding that a St. Louis district’s restraint and seclusion practices discriminated against students with disabilities. Along the way, they connect the dots between fear-based decision-making, routine punishment, trauma, and the long-ter ...