The Department expresses its profound concerns over disciplinary actions for children in preschool and early start. The guidance contains the following assertions: 

 “Despite their young age, preschool children with disabilities are too often removed from their current educational placement for disciplinary reasons.” 

“Head Start’s Program Performance Standards explicitly state that programs ‘must prohibit or severely limit the use of suspension due to a child’s behavior’ and that ‘[a] program cannot expel or unenroll a child from Head Start because of a child’s behavior.’” 

“Head Start’s program standards of conduct expressly prohibit using corporal punishment, isolating a child for disciplinary purposes, and binding or tying a child to restrict movement or taping a child’s mouth”.