Schools Under Fire for Isolation Room Punishment Tactics

[EscapingProgress]

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/school-isolation-rooms-scream-rooms-bellevue-washington-restraint-punishment-161142649.html

 

"Parents are growing increasingly outraged over an unusual method some schools are using to discipline kids. The policy involves the use of isolation rooms (aka “scream rooms”), closet-sized rooms that children, often those with special needs, are placed in for a cooling-off period, where they can be left unmonitored for up to several hours at a time without bathroom breaks."

 

"In 2012, a mother of a student at Mint Valley Elementary School in Washington snapped a photo of the school's isolation room located in a storage area with two peepholes and no chairs and posted it on Facebook where it was shared about 100 times. She claimed that kids were placed inside for offenses such as crying and tapping on their desks. In April 2013, an Arizona mother said her son was held in the room 17 different times (The school claims it was only three.) with no bathroom breaks. And last December, two New York City parents of KIPP Star Washington Heights Elementary School students reported that their children suffered anxiety attacks after being placed in the padded rooms with only a single lightbulb, a floor mat, and a 2--by-3 foot window. In that case, a 5-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after he panicked and wet himself and a first grader became too scared to return to school. Perhaps the most chilling case involved a 13-year-old boy at a special education school in Georgia who hung himself inside an isolation room in 2004."

 

If you support state schools you don't care about the children.

[Dylan Lawrence Moore]

Jesus fucking Christ. If you wanted any more evidence that schools and prisons are becoming the same thing, look no fucking further.

 

I just finished reading the Gulag Archipelago and the parallels aren't just uncanny. The proper term for this is "punishment cell".

[Anuojat]

Yeahh.... who was the sadistic asshat who came up with these?

 

Lock "troubled" children away cause they might be violant. Compassion and emphaty be damned!

Deeper issues that cause this also be damned! WQe want no responceability here and psycology and wellbeing of children can just fuck off.

 

I mean... talk about running away from problems.

[annamoo]

Wow, what next water boarding?