Posted on 12/15/2025 1:43:24 PM PST by Morgana
Four teachers at a Wisconsin school have been accused of locking children in a pitch-black 'dungeon' as a cruel punishment tactic.
A lawsuit launched by the furious parents of three children at Thurston Woods Public School in Milwaukee accuses the staff members of traumatizing their children.
Filed on December 8, the legal document alleges that between 2022 and 2024 the teachers would routinely place young children in a boiler room to scare them.
'When asked about 'the dungeon' by their parents, some students would become so scared, stressed and upset that they would begin to cry,' the lawsuit reads.
'Students experienced sleep issues, nightmares and waking up crying during the night because of fear of 'the dungeon,'' the complaint seen by the Daily Mail said.
Parents Monica Webb, Korettea Cooper, Porsche Cosey and Vedonte Olden Sr. have named four teachers in the lawsuit - Terrence Graham, Darlene Lucas, Carolyn Watson, and Joann Johnson - along with leadership staff members.
Represented by Milwaukee attorney Drew DeVinney, the parents allege that teachers at the pre-K-8 school sent their children to the boiler room for misbehaving.
Video shows one male staffer, a former male paraprofessional, locking three different students in the 'dungeon' several times, according to the lawsuit.
Images from inside the basement show a room full of heavy-duty machinery, ladders, boilers, buckets, and dirty rags strewn across hard cement flooring.
The room smelled strongly of harsh chemicals, and was used for storing cleaning agents, according to the lawsuit.
Children were allegedly locked inside 'with the lights turned off so that it would be pitch black,' according to the lawsuit.
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Thats the way it should be handled.
But in the town it was well known when they got home at night their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
The underlying problem here is that “we” (well, judges and legislators and lawyers) have made effective and reasonable discipline in schools ... most especially in government schools ... impossible.
Because that's irrelevant.
Well, I did not torture anyone, but this one eighth grader might disagree, and will never forget.
I was teaching Middle School Math. Yes, I actually enjoyed teaching them. The best way to describe them is “they are aliens.” All of the hormones are starting, and it drives them crazy.
So.....this one eighth grader (Joseph) would not settle down. Nothing outrageous, but enough to interrupt the others. I called mom after school and she devised a great way to deal with it. She said that the next time he is acting up, just call mom right away. So, the next time came. I just mosied over to my desk, still engaged in the lesson. I called mom and then, holding up the phone, told the student that the call was for him. He was very surprised, and at first disbelieving. I said it was his mom. The ENTIRE class sat up straight and correct. While Joe’s mom was reading him the riot act over the phone, the class was dead silent. Eventually, one other student declared “you can’t call my mom!” I believe it was a cry for mercy. Please do not call my mom.
Joseph behaved better.
Wrong and number Post #24 is very pointedly for you.
Everybody's kid is an angel until the parent teacher conference...I had many parents storm in with fire in their eyes only to leave ready to blast their kid.
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While Joe’s mom was reading him the riot act over the phone
And here we have another aspect of the problem. Too many parents ... particularly mothers ... simply cannot fathom, utterly deny, bitterly reject ... the very IDEA that Little Suzy or Little Johnny is anything other than a perfect angel and the smartest kid in the class. Especially when Little Suzy or Little Johnny is a sub-normal troublemaker.
Correction, discipline and punishment are necessary, but even serial murderers aren’t treated this way.
We continue to learn of more and more examples of the sick perverts that teach our kids.
Even the conference doesn’t always help.
#24.
#30.
I read somewhere that Jerry Sandusky was serenaded with that song by inmates when he was incarcerated.
The kids needed to learn that they can’t have their pudding if they didn’t eat their meat.
Would you rather be confined to a boiler room, briefly or confined in prison for the rest of your life?
Prison ...
You know ... that place that's run by violent racist gangs, where any offense given to another can result in you being raped and or murdered? Or how about solitary confinement for life in Florence ADMAX?
Comparing this to how we treat serial murderers is absurd ...
1) I am not defending this practice per se ... I see a lot of problems with it, including the way that children who aren't a bunch of hypersensitive yardbirds could make it backfire.
2) This kind of ad-hoc, poorly considered punishment is the inevitable, predictable result of policies which prevent teachers enforcing some discipline in the classroom.
3) This kind of ad-hoc, poorly considered punishment is the inevitable, predictable result of parents who refuse to raise their children properly.
LOL!
All in all, it was all just bricks in The Wall.
This is hilarious. How old were these kids? They are ridiculously soft these days. We got HIT!!!
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