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What Teachers Can Do: Trauma‑Informed Classrooms and Child Protection

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TRAUMA INFORMED TEACHING, TRAUMA  INFORMED CLASSROOMS Teachers as Mandated Reporters and Frontline Defenders – Teachers are uniquely positioned—they often spend more awake hours with children than any other adult, especially for those from troubled homes. They are confidants, first responders, and witnesses to the silent suffering of abused, neglected, or traumatized students.

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When Is Child Abuse a Crime ?

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WHEN IS CHILD ABUSE A CRIME?
AT THE HANDS OF THEIR PARENTS

If I had committed the crimes parents perpetrated upon these children, criminal child abuse laws would send me to jail. How can it be that because caregivers delivered the beatings, rapes and other traumas, the abuse was not a crime and children were all returned to their parents for more of the same (these Minnesota children died).