The 8-year-old girl who acted up last week goes to Hamilton Disston School in Gulfport, for children who are severely emotionally disturbed or who have other disabilities such as speech or vision impairments. After school, she is bused to Fairmount for R'Club, a nonprofit learning program.
One has to wonder if a child who is too disturbed to be in the regular school should be in an afterschool program with the other children.
I'm sure the teachers in school for emotionally disturbed children were trained in restraint techniques, but I doubt that would be the case for the people running the afterschool program.