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
You think you’re gonna get me there? No way...
Rush fan from way back.
I was referring to Rand’s “Anthem”.
Good quick read, and pretty insightful into the world that the leftists would have us in, where everyone is held down to the lowest common denominator.
Public schooling as it exists today is a very unnatural treatment of children.
(It seems to have become worse in the past few decades - which might explain why so many adults read a story like this and think these kids just need a good spanking, like many of us did when we got a bit unruly from time to time.)
The children (particularly boys) who naturally resist the unnatural aspects of schooling are subjected to ever-harsher measures in order to break them - mind-altering drugs, head games and psychological manipulation, and now even solitary confinement.
If I were subjected to what these kids are put through, and powerless to escape, I’d probably be screaming and beating my head against the concrete walls and peeing my pants too.
You don’t abuse kids because they are being abused at home. That is stupid. It is also a great excuse for the usual public school failure and abuse. The lastest excuse mantra “It’s the parents’ fault” that public schools are failure face idiots.
I have seen public school employees (a coven radical lesbians) target boys with outright, coordinated lies and harassment. Even though they got caught by parents running their harassment game, nothing happened to them. When a lawyer stepped in it stopped - for that year anyway.
Yes, as well as putting faith in an inherently Marxist government education system.
GOD help us!
The big “time out” room! No problem, time to grow up a little!
Exclusion is lack of love. What most kids need is love
Schools are for teaching. If students are disruptive, send them home.
And stop teaching all that crap ideology. Stick to reading, writing and ‘rithmatic, and maybe a little, true, American history.
should be relatively easy to confirm or deny some of these claims. ask the children, especially those who were suposedly in the rooms, inspect the rooms themselves, check the ambulance logs...
that said, i know some kids who would need these rooms...
Lock the teachers in the rooms.
Here in Wisconsin, most of the worst tantrums are coming from those “highly qualified and educated professionals.”
I thought you were refering to the priests of the temple of syrinx taking over the classes
“Scream Rooms”, also known to parents as “Restaurants”.
I think the government forced the issue...and schools get more money the more disabled kids they enrole. One of the reasons teachers are so quick to label a kid as having ADD or such is that also brings in more money to the school..more poor kids on school lunch programs equals more money also.....etc. etc. etc......
Your suggestions would likely rule in nearly every school in the land **if** all K-12 education were private.
Please remember that our godless socialist-entitlement K-12 schools do NOT NOT NOT exist for the purpose of educating children.
The purpose of godless socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling is two-fold: lots of socialist jobs ( and their votes), and raising up another generation of befuddled socialist voters who think and reason godlessly.
Personally, I am so concerned about godless socialist K-12 schooling that I seriously do not believe this nation can withstand even one more generation of it. Freedom will be lost in the voting booth.
Recently I have made the personal decision to eliminate government school teachers from my social life. They are, in my opinion, too evil, too stupid, too much of a Useful Idiot, or too much of a weak and timid paycheck collecting Christian to be my friend.
I am perplexed that other conservatives and Christians do not share my concern and urgency about the danger the godless socialist K-12 school poses for our nation, and the very souls of the nation's children.
Honestly, **no** education would be better than sending a child into a godless socialist school, and I live in one of the most Christian and reddest counties in the nation, and from what our cub scouts tell us, even our godless socialist schools are pits of depravity. Illiteracy and innumeracy can be fixed, but moral and spiritual decay has lifelong and often eternal consequences.
When all godless socialist K-12 schooling in this nation is permanently padlocked, and all education is private.
That’ll work!
Some folks will probably bristle at that characterization, but we're not talking about some "rambunctious" youngster, or "excitable" child.
We're talking about kids wriggling around on the floor, screaming, thrashing and biting anyone who comes close enough.
While they're human beings, they're devoid of reason and self-control.
God Bless your daughter-in-law, someone's got to do it, and I know I sure couldn't!
I remember a 5th grader, very large 5th grader who would start throwing desks across the room, attacking other kids, until the teachers physically subdued him. When he wouldn't stop fighting, biting, spitting, kicking; he was placed in the time out room, (12x12 padded walls) and the teachers would reason with him until he cooled down and then could re-enter the classroom. This kid had an aide with him for all the other kid's safety; even on the bus home. Aide couldn't even handle this kid.
This is our schools in today's world of inclusion and it's not going to change. When the district check's the family out, it's even worse. Heroin junkie mother, dysfunctional generations of family members, and you blame the teachers?
Time out rooms are quite necessary, I've seen teachers with stitches and bruises caused by violent kids. It's not the 1950's in our schools today.
I understand why you would say that. Keep in mind that we don't want to be facist in keeping it.
We lost control of the schools when the very first state compelled-attendance, compelled-funded, socialist schools opened in the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
It was inevitable. Socialism always leads to increasing state and then federal control and mandates. It's drive is always toward more and more godless secularism. It's curriculum and teacher training has always been under the control of the most progressive elements. It's indoctrination goals are always controlled by the biggest political bullies.
Solution: Begin the process of complete privatization. Vouchers, tax credits, charters, and homeschooling can help build the infrastructure but the goal must be complete separation of school and state.
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