This is unbelievable. How could schools still be allowed to to this. Everybody knows, you don't leave kids unsupervised, mush less one with ADHD-which is my opinion is a label, that makes kids who wear it feel really bad as it is.If this doesn't scare the daylights out of you, I don't know what does. If this boy was able to communicate with his parents and this still happened, imagine the ones like my Mickie, that can't speak a word. I can only imagine what those poor parents must be going through.
This part of the article from the CNN site:
• Mentally disabled, autistic kids injured, traumatized in school seclusion rooms.
• 13-year-old Georgia boy hanged himself in room with cord teacher gave him.
• Autistic Iowa girl confined in school storage closet where she pulled out her hair.
Murrayville, Georgia - A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out.” The room where Jonathan King hanged himself is shown after his death. It is no longer used, a school official said..............
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/
As you say it is unbelivable that this still continues in this day and age. Frightening.
ReplyDeleteI just read this link and it made me sick to my stomach. To think that schools think this is acceptable.........it just makes me want to lock them in a room for hours and ignore their pleas for help. DISGUSTING!
ReplyDeleteFor as far as we have come-we still don't put enough value on the disabled.
ReplyDeleteWe protect animals more then we protect special needs kids.