Posted on 02/17/2014 4:47:27 PM PST by Sub-Driver
February 17, 2014, 01:55 pm Lawmaker: Stop putting kids in 'scream rooms'
By Kristina Wong
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is calling for an end to the use of “scream rooms” to discipline children in U.S. schools.
The Connecticut senator has proposed legislation that would end the practice of physically restraining students or secluding them in padded rooms, after learning that there were more than 30,000 such instances every year in schools across the state.
“That way to deal with behavior just does not work. Actually kids don’t respond to that,” Murphy said in an interview with local news station WTIC.
“There are just better ways to deal with behavioral issues than just locking kids up in padded rooms,” he said.
The rooms are as small as 4’x4’ or 6’x6’, he said.
Murphy said an overuse of restraint or seclusion could lead to mental and physical injury to children as well as to other children witnessing the practice.
Although some children are violent and could be threat to others, many of the children suffer from other conditions that would be best address via mental health programs, school counselors, and psychologists, Murphy said.
Forty percent of the kids that have been restrained or secluded in Connecticut have autism, and a disproportionate number of them have been Latino and black, he added.
“There’s very limited instances in which you have to restrain a kid, but there is absolutely no instance in which you have to lock a kid up in a room by himself,” Murphy said.
Earlier this month, a Senate Education Committee report called the rooms potentially unsafe and abusive.
A 2012 ABC News investigation found that “thousands of autistic and disabled schoolchildren had been injured and dozens died after being restrained by poorly trained teachers and school aides.”
In some cases, children were handcuffed, electrically shocked, or locked in padded rooms for hours. A 14-year-old Georgia boy who committed suicide after being repeatedly left alone for hours in a room comparable to a prison cell, ABC News reported.
According to ABC, some teacher and school advocacy groups oppose legislation to regulate the use of restraint, saying it limits their ability to subdue a child who may harm others.
“This deserves not only attention from the state legislature, but this is an issue all across the country, and it deserves attention from Congress as well,” Murphy said.
what does the constitution say about the States educating children?
Maybe he’s thinking same treatment for selected voters who attend “town hall” discussions in his district....
“There are just better ways to deal with behavioral issues than just locking kids up in padded rooms,” he said.
He’s right. It’s called corporal punishment.
> You’re one of those people who love to hate kids, forgetting that this country is grooming them to take care of you (or not) in your old age, aren’t you?
Bwaha. They’ll be driving the soylent green scoopers...lol
Especially when its the easy to steal an election though I’m leaning more to electronic manipulation of the votes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0uedSCARlc
Arrest the lawmakers and put them in scream rooms.
Yeah. I’m thinking sticking with Judeochristian thinking will be a safer avenue.
Oy
Hmm. #5 and #20 don’t really mesh for me, but I’ll just say that I’m glad you aren’t assuming 95% of FReeper parents will go to hell.
watch this video and then tell me how a young black kid is supposed to learn how to act in a civilized society when the adults in their life act like this.
You only have to watch a minute or so to get the full flavor.
*WARNING* (graphic language from the start.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw50ZdLo8Ko
Actually I don’t think the constitution says anything about the states’ role in educating children. I believe all rights not given to the federal government reside with the states. This is from memory from a civics course. I’d like to hear from freepers who are well informed on this subject.
LOL autocorrect keeps changing freepers to freezers
corporal punishment it is, then. bring the ‘board of education’ back. they will definitely understand why they are getting paddled and respond.
Education was always supposed to be in the control of the parents. The State has no “Right” to impose control/limits/curricula over parents. (it is a Natural Right and a Natural Duty to educate your own children, guaranteed by the Constitution.)
All education should be a “local” thing if the government has any business whatsoever, in it....which they really don’t unless extreme abuse/contrary to Natural Laws and God’s Laws (Constitution).
The State used to have NO power over any kids and education. They suggested but could not “force” kids even to attend school. That is a modern “thing”.
This Prussian system of today is unconstitutional and is about programming. True education flew out the door when the Progressives got their embedded Wundtian psychology and total Germanization of curricula and system, complete with destruction of the Classical Education (hey, ho, Western Civ has got to go). Classical Education created the USA and the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment and was the mainstay up until John Dewey in 1930.
The schools have successfully destroyed Virtue (fortitude/temperance/Wisdom/Excellence)-—flipped good and evil in our children and destroyed Reason and Critical Thinking with brainwashing and lies, and misinformation.
Why would I assume that?
First place, God judges, not I. I just like to point out once in a while as people did when I was growing up, we’re going to have to have a chat with God one day.
It’s not directed at freepers, who are not, in general, apprehensive about considering judgement.
I’m talking about parents who drop their kids off anywhere, assuming, for the sake of convenience that the kids will be fine, including letting them watch the images and ideas portrayed on TV.
You must have the ‘Climate Change;Polar Vortex’ edition of the autocorrect.
I would also like to be well versed on what the govt’s role in education properly is.
Very interesting.
We were talking about it the other day. I stated that the Dominicans taught us how to think.
We have a good school here, and it’s amazing to see well educated teachers fall into the illogical nature of contemporary thought. All younger. The older teachers are not necessarily better, just taught to think.
Thinking is most discouraged in most venues for young people
I need one every time I see Obama on TV.
USA Today: 'Seclusion rooms' for autistic students raise questions
Actually, IIRC education is not mentioned in the Constitution. Thus the right of the state is reserved. At least I think that is what the states agreed to when they formed our union.
It would be helpful for some Constitutional scholar here on FR to tell us about this issue.
No thanks. I’m a life long Texan, and I plan to remain that way.
Scream rooms sound barbaric. CT is a confused state: on one hand they grab guns and on the other they put their kids in “scream rooms.”
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