Shoes belong in boxes, not children:
An Arizona couple is suing their son’s former school district for allegedly throwing him in a tiny, windowless room for bad behavior they say was caused by officials ignoring his severe allergies and feeding him foods packed with sugar.
Leslie and Eric Noyes of Glendale, Ariz., filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Court last week against Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 and Desert Sage Elementary School, where their son attended second grade last year.
The complaint, obtained by Courthouse News Service, charges school officials with assault and battery, false imprisonment, gross negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress on their son.
The couple is seeking compensation for their son’s medical treatment and transportation costs to send him to a school outside his district as as well as general damages.
The use of cool down rooms in the same county whose controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio has forced prison inmates to wear pink underwear isn’t unique to Arizona. School officials across the country have used seclusion rooms, most often for special education students or those diagnosed as autistic. The practice is controversial. In 2004, a 13-year-old Georgia student hanged himself after his parents said he was traumatized by being put in a time-out room.
These “scream rooms” are absolutely abhorrent. They should never have been allowed on a school premises. It disgusts me that we are incorporating torture techniques to deal with classroom behaviour issues.
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Topical Teaching 
September 19, 2012 at 12:05 pm |
It seems to me any society which gives rise to prisoners of war being treated like animals (Abu Ghraib, Iraq) is going down a road to a very hot place. When things like this happen, and children are being treated in a similar way, at home, not in a foreign prison, it’s time the system was overhauled. Why? These are systemic problems related to the way in which society is governed and people are treated. When the 47% (?) of people who don’t pay tax are written off by a presidential candidate it’s a sure sign that the system is seriously sick.
In my experience children who are happy at school are capable of, and more likely to employ co-operative behaviour. When children are unhappy at school they truant and misbehave. Truancy and misbehaviour is a sure sign of a sick system. For children to be happy at school they need to be challenged with relevant, engaging lessons. There is a world of difference between being challenged and being overwhelmed. Much of this is now taken out of teachers’ hands. Curriculum is informed by political considerations rather than educational.