SECLUSION ROOMS: An example about what we fight against
Below is riveting information about a school that had a seclusion room located in the basement of their school. No door knobs, no supervision, nothing. There is also a video linked to the article that could show you just how children are treated and what we fight against every day. No child should have ever had to endure such a space as the one being demonstrated in the video.
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Rhode Island – September 17, 2008
Note: The only reason this room became public is because they got caught. I wonder how many other public schools have these rooms that parents do not know about.
In the aftermath of a simmering controversy over the creation of a locked isolation room in the basement of the Block Island School, Supt. Leslie A. Ryan has resigned as the district’s special-education director. The existence of the isolation room was first made public by The Providence Journal on June 14, just as the school was closing for the summer. The Journal inquired after receiving an anonymous DVD showing a corridor leading to Room 20, showing a door with two bolts and a hole where a doorknob should be. Inside, one window is boarded up with plywood, and there are pillows and blankets in a jumble on the floor. A letter accompanying the video wondered whether this room was being used for “unruly students.” Read the complete story by clicking on the link below.
http://www.projo.com/education/content/BLOCK_ISLAND_SUPERINTENDENT_09-17-08_D3BJV8V_v40.1a53dc1.html
