We didn't need a jail or an ugly chair, we had nuns to make you feel bad.
Posted on 04/13/2017 8:52:27 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Elementary school accused of putting young special needs students in a 'JAIL' box made of dry wall as punishment
An elementary school in Florida is accused of punishing young special needs students by putting them in a so-called 'discipline box' made partially of drywall.
The parents of a 3-year-old with cerebral palsy filed a lawsuit against Duval County Public Schools, in Jacksonville, claiming their child along with hundreds of other students were abused in their preschool classroom.
The 37-page lawsuit explains that students knew the box as 'jail', and if they were sent to jail, it was a form of punishment.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Modern schools don’t look like schools at all, they look like penitentiaries. They way they are run is like a prison with cops and security guards at the front.
They were just preparing this kid for the day he would be in a real prison.
For the record...when I was 3-4 years old and in Nursery school we too had a “time out”. It was called the “ugly chair” and it was in the corner of the room. I suppose this is not PC anymore.
Training them for life as sheep.
SOme teachers and principals need firing...............
We are quick to blame them but gotta wonder who thought this up? This is not the only school system to use such an idea. In some schools it’s actual “cages”. No joke!!
Take a look at this!
Your comment kind of sounds like stuff I’ve heard black lives matter say.
Not only is this dehumanizing, it is dangerous. The drywall in the picture at the site shows what looks like a partial sheet of drywall just leaning up against a desk. A full sheet of 1/2” drywall can weight up to 50 pounds. This half sheet of drywall could injure a child of 3.
Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There’s no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell’s at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one’ll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don’t bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I’m Carr, the floor walker. I’m responsible for order in here. Any man don’t keep order spends a night in...
Luke: ...the box.
Carr: I hope you ain’t going to be a hard case.
We didn't need a jail or an ugly chair, we had nuns to make you feel bad.
They used to call these “time out rooms”.
BS.
They took out prayer, the bible and “the board of education” out of schools now they are a total mess. There would be no need for cops in schools if we still had all three. Cops in schools means they have lost control not they have control.
Oh no!! They should have used duct tape! haha/ former inner city teacher here.
I sat in the Thinking Chair, too. It’s ok to reap consequences - great way to learn about Real Life.
That school must learn to think outside the box.
I had a gradeschool teacher who used tape and a stick. She would tape the kids mouth. Hit the kids over their hands too.
Then again it was a Catholic school. The nuns were evil too.
I have no doubt that some of them are in prison by now, and if they're not, they should be.
Ruler across the knuckles from Sister Mary whoever.
When I was a kid we could be made to stand in a corner, face to the walls if we misbehaved. A timeout with a place to sit down would have been welcome!
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