by WDAZ
ND Parents Outraged Over School’s Tiny ‘Time Out’ Room
May 7, 2012 at 1:12 pm in WDAZ
LEEDS, ND (WDAZ-TV) – Parents in Leeds are outraged over a “time out” room recently built in the public school that’s meant to hold disruptive students. Continue Reading
Raise your kids right and this won’t be an issue.
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I so agree. If parents were parents the teachers could be teachers. And about the comment he couldnt play in there, My kids were put ion time out not to play but to think about why they were in time out. I think this might be a little extreme, but they have to think of the safety of the other kids and teachers.
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Exactly! He can’t even play in there? Is she serious? THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT! Discipline the little brat and it won’t be an issue.
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The kid is 5 years old! What do you expect?
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It used to be (one or two generations ago), that if a student misbehaved at school, the school could punish the offender. The parents would back the school for the punishment, too.
Now, we have parents threatning to sue the school, if their kid is even accused of misbehaving.
While we are on this topic, look at all the coaches that have quit in recent years, because parents are throwing flak at the coaches. The coaches should be left to coach their team. They know what talent and abilities that the students on the team have. Some parents are only worried about their kid getting all the time on the court, so some recruiter can pick that kid for a college team ($cholarships).
Its high time for the parents to back the teachers and administrators. You send your kids to a school to learn and get an education. The teachers need you to back them, when they need to discipline students, including your kid, from time to time.
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What type of discipline would you suggest?
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A hearty spanking, for starters.
“Time Out” is pointless. Physical pain works as intended.
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I have volunteered in an elementary school since my retirement, and have seen first-hand some shocking things: mostly the behavior of some children. What exactly do you propose the staff does with a child that has flown into a BLIND RAGE and gone on a rampage, hitting, kicking, and even BITING other children? Why should children raised with decent standards of behavior be forced to share their classroom with a child that is so disruptive, or even dangerous?
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School staff are not allowed to physically detain your child for a long length of time, and a “safe room” such as this is used as a cooling off time.
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BTW, I used to work as a school janitor. If you think high school students are so innocent, I assure you, that they are not.
Apply for a job as a school janitor and see what I mean.
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How would these women prefer that their children get disciplined?
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Show me the kid that said no room to play and I’ll show you a child who has very poor parenting skills. Its obvious this child has never been punished in his life and hasn’t learned the lesson that punishment isn’t suppose to be fun.
Schools are not day cares for your children and guess what being put in that room would have been the least of my concerns. My primary concern would have been when dad hears about what I did I’m going to really get it.
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Oh Alex, it’s an overreaction like yours that’s the problem. An isolation chamber, are you kidding me? It’s a little room he gets to sit in for a while while he learns to follow the rules, spare us the sky is falling dramatics. In the good old days he would have gotten his butt cracked, I bet that would really send ya? A lack of discipline is a huge cause of society’s issues. Wouldn’t you rather see them in that room than a jail cell in 10 years? How’s the boy and Mrs doing after all the trauma anyway?
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I suppose schools can relinquish any responsibility at all for your out of control child, and you can come to school and pick him up EVERY time he loses control. I’m fairly certain most bosses would be so very understanding about that, right? If you fail to teach your child acceptable behavior, then your child should just stay home with you while you home-school him. That scenario would be far more fair to those children who are prepared to learn and listen.
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No Katherine, I think you’re supposed to tell them no 75 times then sit the 5 year old down and rationalize with them why their behavior is unacceptable, when that doesn’t work give them some Doritos and mountain dew and plop them in front of the tv or video game to calm them down, right Alex? That’s how it’s done these days, heaven forbid the little darling gets his feelings hurt. Oh yeah, we still need to ban dodgeball as well.
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Well, if my student had been on this “unauthorized videotape” I can tell you I would be angry with this parent. What makes it okay for her to roam the school with her videophone and take pictures/video with no permission given by those who might be shown? Perhaps these children are learning what the parents are teaching them, after all, lack of respect. How disappointing.
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Volunteer as I do, and you will have your eyes opened as to the decline in behavior in today’s children. I am not a professional educator, simply a concerned citizen, but school teachers and administration have been charged with a very heavy responsibility to educate today’s children, and I struggle to see how they can control some of them. That is beyond sad to me, as a Grandma.
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Thanks Alex, try not to produce anymore spoiled, insubordinate, disrespectful classroom nuisances.
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Has anyone even finished reading the article? This ‘punishment’ is for children who are in a ‘special program.’ Yes, they are shoving special ed kids in a so-called ‘safe room,’ rather than providing the resources necessary to help these children learn how to develop skills to control themselves. Are you kidding me? They’re not putting healthy, naughty kids in this room because they aren’t listening to teachers. They are putting children with SPECIAL NEEDS and/or DISABILITIES in this room. That is cruel. Plain and simple. These kids that are in this ‘special program’ need adults to be compassionate with them and TEACH THEM, rather than give up on them. If a child is in special ed, the school should certainly have adequate staffing levels to allow these students to have a para – not a box. WTHeck kind of solution is this? Oh, that’s right. It’s not a solution. It’s a problem. Wow. And yes, I’d much rather home school my child than to allow him or her to be subjected to this type of malicious punishment for having special needs. How DARE the school treat children in special education this way. We all ought to be outraged!
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Mark did YOU read the article? the article says nothing about this being for special needs or disabled children. This room is for children on a Special BEHAVIOR program. A straight A student can be on a behavioral program that has absolutaly NO physical disabilities. I think you painted a ridiculously off hand picture. What would you do if you got a call that a kid freaked out and beat on your kid or started throwing chairs and your kid got in the way? YOUR child was the one that got hurt? Would you then be opposed to a child sitting in a confined area for a few minutes to cool off? I am guessing you would rather they cooled off than hurt your child or someone elses.
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And how much should we pay this “para” to be bitten, kicked, and punched? That is the kind of child who needs a place to calm like this.
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Wow Mark, you sure took that inch and went a mile. You make it sound as if they are parking wheelchairs in there. The way I read it it’s for kids with discipline problems, precisely who it should be for, so everyone freaking out should feel a little better. Alex, this ones for you. You and Mark should get together, watch some Beaches and hold each other, talk about emotional, wow.
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At least they do not require the kid to wear a dunce cap.
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Discipline aside…what if the kid was claustrophobic?
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One would hope the parents had made sure that was in the child’s IEP so that school staff could deal with that issue. Most of today’s parents do not know what an IEP is, unless their child is on one.
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Omg the torture of being punished these days: no iPhone, no TV, no video games, no ipad, no iPod, no internet, no computer, no telephone, no toys.
All or some of these things exist in your children’s bedrooms. When I was growing up alot of these were around but the only thing in my bedroom was clothes and books. I earned a TV in my room when I was 16 years old had a job a knew what I had to work at $6 to afford those luxuries.
The best part is at 17 years old when I screwed up and got sent to my room for punishment my parents just took the luxuries away and said if you don’t like it go live in foster care because none of this is coming with you.
my point is what is going to happen to these kids when they turn 18 and screw up to a point where they are in a room very similar to this for 15 years to life.
No children were hurt, beaten or scared for life by sitting in room with their freedom limited for a few minutes or hours because they couldn’t behave in school.
They probably learned a lesson their parents didnt teach them. Do we really want to raise children that society has to teach a lesson to when the child turns 18 and faces time behind bars?
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If the kid is that out of control than it’s time to call mom or dad and tell them to come and get him. Suspend him for three days and if he can’t settle down expel him. Let his parents home school him if they can’t get him to behave at school.
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The thing everyone is overlooking here is we have no idea how out of control or what the kids have even done. Remembering how many teachers opperate I would not be surprised at how they choose who gets a time out. One group does something and no punishment. Another group does the same or less and gets the box.
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Brian and Katherine, thank you. We usually don’t get to hear the sensible, time-tested side of this argument since the other is louder, (Probably why Alex bailed). When they say, “So you think it’s alright to humiliate and beat a child?”, how can you respond? You say no, but then they think they’ve won the argument. Talk about a brick wall…
A time-out room is safe. Safe for that child, but even more so for the others. We need to remember too that the others didnt need a time-out. I’m sure they got theirs at home, by loving parents who want their child to learn at school.
Should the penalty box be taken away in hockey??
If anyone opposing has any sense of debate, answer Amos please.
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My ex wife’s first cousin, “Todd”, was a problem in school, hit and bit his first grade teacher, was expelled numerous times, but it was a crime to give him any real punishment.
He went on to be in and out of jail, and finally kidnapped and murdered his 19 year old exgirlfriend. Then tried to kill himself. Well, he managed it, but it took a couple of days for it to ‘take’.
Maybe if he had gotten a bit of punishment when he was five, that might not have happened?
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OK I am getting a little confused here. Soem of you are blaming the child and the parent at the same time. So is it the child or the parent who is screwed up? I also wonder how many of the posters here that think this is alright were posting that the fantasy store is so bad?
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The parent screws up the child, so both. Children become adults, and then they are held accountable for their actions. As for your last question… what???
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The teachers aren’t going to McDonald’s to tell you how to do your job. You go try step into a classroom full of the kids of SOME of the parents out there. You’d be tempted to do more than give a timeout.
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