shadowstalker
18th January 2012, 21:51
MIDDLETOWN, Conn.—A practice in some schools to isolate special education students in closed areas denounced as "scream rooms" when they have emotional outbursts has raised concerns among parents and state agency heads.
Connecticut's child advocate, Jeanne Milstein, and the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities' executive director, James McGaughey, said Thursday they are conducting preliminary investigations after parents raised concerns about use of time-out rooms at Middletown's Farm Hill School.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2012/01/12/conn_reviews_schools_use_of_meltdown_rooms/
The Middletown Board of Education is taking up the issue of controversial scream rooms at Farm Hill School tonight.
Some parents say these rooms are a distraction to students, a disruption to the learning process and they're afraid a child could get seriously hurt.
Though the issue isn't technically on the agenda, the board of education chair has asked the superintendent to briefly address the concerns.
A father of a Farm Hill fifth grader says a few weeks ago he started learning about a so-called scream room at his son's school.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/16490795/middletown
MIDDLETOWN — The principal of Farm Hill Elementary School at a meeting on Thursday said rumors and accusations about what has happened at the school’s so-called “scream room” are “scary” and “unfounded.”
The perception that the school is out of control is “not reality,” said Patricia Girard, principal at Farm Hill at Thursday night’s PTA meeting.
Girard denied that a child had banged his head against the wall until it bled and says this can be corroborated by certified staff, a behavioral analysts and a nurse.
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2012/01/12/news/doc4f0f77da1ce9d102223529.txt
The two women in the pix of the above interview are my kid sisters.
I spoke to my sister Dale about all this and she informed me that bullies where not sent to the scream rooms but mainly dysfunctional children like autistic children, you know the ones that are not meant to be in main stream classes... this whole thing made me sick..
Connecticut's child advocate, Jeanne Milstein, and the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities' executive director, James McGaughey, said Thursday they are conducting preliminary investigations after parents raised concerns about use of time-out rooms at Middletown's Farm Hill School.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2012/01/12/conn_reviews_schools_use_of_meltdown_rooms/
The Middletown Board of Education is taking up the issue of controversial scream rooms at Farm Hill School tonight.
Some parents say these rooms are a distraction to students, a disruption to the learning process and they're afraid a child could get seriously hurt.
Though the issue isn't technically on the agenda, the board of education chair has asked the superintendent to briefly address the concerns.
A father of a Farm Hill fifth grader says a few weeks ago he started learning about a so-called scream room at his son's school.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/16490795/middletown
MIDDLETOWN — The principal of Farm Hill Elementary School at a meeting on Thursday said rumors and accusations about what has happened at the school’s so-called “scream room” are “scary” and “unfounded.”
The perception that the school is out of control is “not reality,” said Patricia Girard, principal at Farm Hill at Thursday night’s PTA meeting.
Girard denied that a child had banged his head against the wall until it bled and says this can be corroborated by certified staff, a behavioral analysts and a nurse.
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2012/01/12/news/doc4f0f77da1ce9d102223529.txt
The two women in the pix of the above interview are my kid sisters.
I spoke to my sister Dale about all this and she informed me that bullies where not sent to the scream rooms but mainly dysfunctional children like autistic children, you know the ones that are not meant to be in main stream classes... this whole thing made me sick..