Educators Take A New Approach
Posted by admin on November 29, 2007 · 4 Comments
Parents are outraged to learn that their little special needs snowflakes have been being placed in a padded room at their school after classes.
One mother was horrified when she saw the room and said that it stinks, has no ventilation and fluorescent lighting and she suspects and fears that the room has been used for students who act out.
The school officials say that the room has been used once in a crisis situation, but in general the kids just wait in the room for their parents after school.Â
Some parents, are not as outraged.. and probably wish they had a room like this at home for the kids. They say rooms like this provide a safe place for kids who are acting out in ways that could cause injuries. Their problem with the room at this school was that it was so poorly designed.
After all of the complaining, the school district dismantled the room and now use it as a quiet instruction room instead of a storage room for children.
Eh maybe they should of kept the room and put the one who had such a “brilliant” idea in it…
Sounds more like a mental institution than a school. If they ever put my child in a room like that I would be horrified. What ever happened to a good old detention room or having to sit in the office until the parents picked them up? Wow, that’s scary!
I can’t say I have a problem for using a padded room to restrain unruly children. As long as it’s not abused – it could become an overused and easy way to deal with kids instead of teaching them.
Zahar – if they were to put my child in there, they would get worse than that.
Tammy – The problem is that the kids are disabled and some are non-verbal and can’t even tell their parents if they were put in there or not.
Adam – If I were being really snarky I would say that all teenagers belong in a room like that. In this case it was particularly sad because the kids are disabled. Really, as much as we can joke about wanting to put kids in a padded room – and I have a three year old, so trust – a room like this really should have never existed. If they can’t handle the kids, they should choose another line of work.