Posted on 01/12/2012 6:35:16 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – Parents in a Connecticut suburb are outraged over disturbing disciplinary actions at a local elementary school.
They claim students are being locked in unsupervised “scream rooms,” where some children have harmed themselves, reports CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez.
The Middleton School District is on the hot seat as furious parents are demanding to know what’s going on behind closed doors at Farm Hill Elementary School.
“My daughter is telling me that there’s kids being taken out in ambulances, by stretcher,” parent Sean Archer told CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez on Wednesday.
Disturbing allegations have surfaced of teachers locking students in closet-sized concrete “scream rooms” for punishment.
“Kids come home and they cry, because they’re afraid to go to school. And it’s often,” parent Brian Robillard said.
“She can hear the kids screaming at the top of their lungs, while she’s trying to read and she asks her teacher what’s going on and they never give her an answer. They tell her to ignore it,” said Liz Archer, the sister of one Farm Hill student.
Parents said their children have witnessed teachers placing unruly students into the tiny “time-out” rooms to calm down.
“From what I heard it’s more traumatizing for the child than it was as a help,” parent Jeff Daniels said. “Kids were hitting their heads on the concrete wall. Kids were urinating in the room.”
School Superintendent Michael Freschette said allegations of children harming themselves in the timeout rooms are not true. However, the Board of Education is investigating. The chairman spoke to CBS 2’s Sanchez by phone Wednesday night.
“We certainly are concerned with these allegations and I’m looking into every single one of them to be certain that our staff is providing a safe environment for our students,” Gene Nocera said
If a kid is disturbed enough to scream uncontrolably, bash their head against a wall, and urinate on the floor, maybe they don't belong in a regular class room - no matter how warm and fuzzy the idea of the sane and insane learning together, side by side, makes one feel.
Parents will need these rooms if zero gets another 4 years.
This is merely another form of child abuse. What makes this worse other forms is that it is abuse under color of authority!
Liberals’ great ideas only fail because the rest of us are too stupid and racist to fund them enough.
The impression I got was that the children are being put in these concrete closets for one reason or another—and after a while they go nuts and start screaming...............
This is child abuse, pure and simple. When oh when are we going to take back our schools?
Teaching and training our children properly, with good parental involvement is the only hope for the future of this once great land.
Ramona
Did it ever occur to you that the targeted children are being abused by sadistic idiots?
Giving cold, self interested union employees who are drenched in Marxist social ideology (they have no respect for human life, children, families and they promote and embrace diversity race hate) total power over their charges is one of the most insane and abusive things we ever have done in our society. I think the left has progressed into such hatred and evil they are driving kids insane.
These parents need to pull their children - enmass - out of the police state school and close it down. No votes needed; they have the power to replace it with vouchers and get rid of the whole sick institution. No kids - no Marxist pigs.
If and/or when our Great Nation crumbles into a third world hell hole, we can look back and recognize that when we lost control of the schools, that was the pivotal point.
Time out rooms, nothing more. You should see what’s going on in the homes these poor kids come from.
My mistake. I failed to copy and paste after the jump, so the post was in effect, and excerpt.
Two “time-out” rooms were implemented two years ago for special needs students. But with growing community concern about their use, the school district drafted a new support plan to deal with students who act up.
Of course, this being written by a journalist major, the second sentence raises more questions than it answers, but my impression is that it's used for "special needs" students who are "main streamed" rather than provided with the "special needs" they need, all in the name of "compassion"
This IS the key, if parents are fully involved in their children's education and cannot bring about changes in the school, then at least they are aware of the problem and can make changes including switching schools or homeschooling their children to solve the problem.
Too many parents are not involved in any way. My oldest daughter is a single parent and a nurse that works a lot of overtime. She is involved in her son's education and cannot believe how many parents are totally uninvolved. Many parents do not care or want to know what goes on at school.
I do know when my girls were in school the school would verbally support parent involvement but in reality discourage parents in every way possible. I think schools really want parents to turn their children over to them and keep out of it...I refused to do that. I was always willing to help out at school, but also quick to speak up if I did not agree with anything that was happening at school. I was not a favorite of the administration, what they really wanted was worker bees that keep their mouth shut.
I said in the first sentence this was done by liberals.
“Mainstreaming” started back when I was in grade school. There weren’t so many as there are now, but they still took up time and resources that inhibited the learning environment for the rest of the kids.
Anyone read “Anthem” lately?
The left comes up with some abusive and bazaar forms of discipline. Either go back to the paddle, standing in the corner or call the parents to come and pick the child up.
Seems like the lefties want to lock them up, tape them up or call the cops on them. Freaks like these belong in jail themselves.
; - )
My daughter had a kid like this in her school, and every day it was "Guess what Jonathan (not his real name... okay yes it is) did today".
Fortunately, I send my kids to a parochial school, and the kid was kicked out.
What was really odd, though, was after he was kicked out, he went to a special needs school where... HIS MOTHER WAS A TEACHER!!!
Only when I’m not listening to 2112.
Parents can’t spank them,
but lefty teachers can duct tape them to chairs,
lock them in small rooms,
or have them handcuffed.
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