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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Bingo! Yahtzee!
The article was written based on a lawsuit filed by parents, which is where the author would have gotten their facts.
Is expecting an actual reporter to actually engage in journalism ... actually investigate the situation ... actually report the WHOLE story ... just too much? Maybe you're willing to let that sort of mediocrity (at best) slide. I'm not. The story neither begins nor ends with "teachers confined students to the boiler room".
whether that information was even available to the author.
Baloney. It's a reporter's JOB to ask questions and get answers.
You didn’t address the point, which is that it is not necessary to know what the kids did in order to discuss the issue of the lack of alternative punishments.
I know.
You want to put children into the pitch black dungeon.
It’s just part of your nature.
OK ...
You’ve now descended into committing libel.
If you were an honorable person, you’d apologize.
Nonsense. Knowing what sort of miscreant is running loose in this school is absolutely necessary to understand the need for meaningful and effective officially sanctioned disciplinary policies.
Nothing happens in a vacuum ... the authors of this rage-bait article are concealing facts from you for a reason.
If you’re willing to tolerate being manipulated by a rage-bait author, that’s your personal problem.
I am not.
Good night.
Those damn kids...
Lack of discipline in schools has been around fir decades.
About when the left and teachers unions took over.
I got paddled in the 10th grade. Okay, it was a joke punishment for bringing a Penthouse on the band bus but got 5 whacks.
How do I despise liberals. Let me count the ways. Race of the adults involved? Race of the children involved?
My daughter experienced the same when she refused as a SOPHOMORE to be the VARSITY GOALIE on the girl’s field hockey team. No one wanted that position. Including her. She quit the team altogether and was subjected to a lot of pressure and ill treatment from a bunch of fat liberals.
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Is it just me or have teachers become more sociopathic/psychopathic?
Is there a relationship between leftism and sociopathic/psychopathic behavior?
Fathers. No’.
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