Schools are what they were designed to be. A place to send your children under the disguise of education so the govt can take more of your money in the form of taxes and expose your kids to teachers who just like other humans that are drunks, pill poppers, sadistic, just plain not qualified. This is just the tip of the iceberg as to what is going on in schools. No child wants to fail the system assures this will happen. Parents need to seriously wake up and demand to know what is going on in the schools. The system has made it very convenient for parents to be free of the responsibility of educating your own children. Some good reading on how the system destroys your child’s mind is ” Crisis In The Classroom” by Charles Silberman. There are a lot of good books out there exposing the horror of the educational nightmare. The Angels weep.

I’m 65 and our nursery school would put you by yourself in a dark empty room with your nap rug if you talked during naptime. In elementary school, our principal spanked with a wooden swatter and even put masking tape over a kid’s eyes for awhile for throwing rocks to demonstrate how it feels to be blind. In my opinion, none of this hurt anyone. I’d hate to be a teacher today…

BTW, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with kids picking our crops either.

Ok, so let me see if I have this straight. The teachers place theses “unruly children” in a concrete room alone and unsupervised and then lock the door. If a parent did this, they would be jailed for child abuse. But because they change the terminology to “screaming room” its legal???

Let’s lock teachers and administrators in these rooms… for 24 hours of ‘time out’.

Ok first of all I am gonna say right up front the concept of this “scream room” is BS!!! But I would like to know what to do with all the unruly, belligerant and violent children in our schools today??? You can’t put them in a room, you can’t spank them, you can’t hold them down, you can’t detain them, you can’t call the police on them, you can’t kick them out of school and deny them an education, you try to call the parents and they don’t want to be bothered or won’t even answer the phone because they know why you are calling, you can’t sit them in the principal’s office all day every day, some are medicated and it doesn’t work or the parents don’t consistently give it to them….. so what do you do? Our schools are getting more and more of these children EVERY year, it is probably already an epidemic of these type of children. Some are from mental illness, some are from neurological problems, some are from bad parenting or NO parenting, but what ever the reason they are making so the OTHER children who deserve an education, doesn’t get one either. There needs to be a coalition put together to do something, this is happening in every state, every school. Something needs to be done. Instead of demanding no tolerance, parents to actually parent, medication actually to be given, promote responsibility of the parents and children, and conformance in school to get an education… they lower the bar, no more PE, no more home work, no striving to be better everyone is a winner, no one loses… this is part of the problem that needs to be dealt with now. Get rid of the Dept of Education and put real scholars onto this problem.

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If their parents would teach their children NOT to scream in school and would monitor their children’s behaviors, teachers and administrators would not have to lock them up like animals. No school is looking for trouble. However, with Classroom Management now a primary prerequisite among ALL public school teachers, it almost seems fitting that the problem-kids have a opportunity to have a good scream where it won’t bother anyone.

Well, that’s what happens when you try and main stream special needs kids.

Its what happens when you try and main stream special needs kids.

Wow, nice to see so many helpful comments written by adults.

Most distressingly, virtually everyone here is missing the point. I agree with what posters say about government schools and leftism, but their (rightful) hostility towards those things has blinded them to the obvious. Namely, how bad does the parenting have to be to breed children who would behave so manically in the first place? If you had locked me in a room in elementary school, I can assure you that I wouldn’t have screamed at the top of my lungs or beat my head against the wall. And, quite frankly, that’s psychotic behavior.

The main story here shouldn’t be that kids were isolated. After all, if they were behaving that way, they likely needed to be (or would anyone prefer that they harmed another child?). The story should be that we’re breeding children who behave like asylum inmates.

Wise up, folks.

Heads need to roll for this. This type of behavior by the school is unacceptable and is completly an abuse in power. I have 25 years in the public school system in NYC (P.S 46 Bronx) and I have never seen a case where this type of discipline would be acceptable and I taught in the BRONX !! Parents need to sue and personnel need to be relieved of their positions.

@Cat- Its a good thing you don’t teach anymore, I would have fired you the second you mentioned a “time out” room. The abuse you inflict onto your kids is a reflection of your poor parenting skills and is probally why you no longer teach. You said you taught for 5 years lol, teachers aid in a daycare doen’t count. Allow A TEACHER to comment, not a 5 year baby sitter who could not hack the job and neglects disciplining her own children and abuses them by locking them in their room.. Your childhood must have been horrible.

Cat, I don’t know where you taught, but in Florida putting a child in a “closet sized concrete scream room” is called “caging” and it’s a felony child abuse charge. There’s a very fine line between your form of discipline and false imprisonment. Be careful you don’t step over it. I really don’t think NPR is an authoritative venue for finding “the latest tantrum research” information.

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If that is actually taking place, the school needs to be shut down pending a full investigation and teachers fired. And as a parent, if it were my kid and it took place, some teachers would be receiving a real good ass whooping.

Sounds good to me given the treatment nuns and teachers of yore meted out to unruly kids. God forbid a teacher look cross ways at little Johnny or bratty Mary-Keyrist, just look at the parents. In some cases one cant tell the difference between the parent or child. I like it when the parent calls the kid “hey dude”. No wonder we have such morons coming out of schools these days.

cat, you are a loudmouth who abuses her children with cruel liberal punishments. My children have never once needed a time-out and if some government teacher placed my child in a box I’d punch their lights out. Sounds like you just have tantrums and lock your kids up when you can’t handle your responsibilities.

Yet another reason why my children will never step foot in a filthy, dangerous government school or be exposed to incompetent liberal union teachers and administrators. Its pathetic what passes for an education in this declining country.

Frechette and a host of others need to be removed from their positions and the rooms shut down. This idea of ‘mainstreaming’ so-called”special needs” kids is yet another aspect of liberal claptrap that is destroying our schools and our children. These students should be placed in special clinical environments and the cost should be borne by the parents, or by their insurance companies.

they are being put into schools in the charleston, sc area, a new one in the college park area i know of for sure

It blows my mind that anyone would voluntarily place their children into these government-run re-education camps. These sick institutions are run by greedy, self-serving unions who have proven over and over that they only have their own interests in mind. The only thing they teach these poor kids is dependence, servitude, and that expressing your individuallity will earn you a severe punishment. Thinking outside of the box is stricktly forbidden. Everyone should read a book titled “Dumbing Us Down” by John Taylor Gatto.

Government schools . . . bringing the fun experience of Gitmo to a small suburb near you.

The teachers are probably using the rooms to have sex with each other or the students.

Remember all the teachers’ union tell us all thatbthey seek& do is for the children. Not!!

totally disgusted by this. this is not ok for any child., special needs or not. it is abusive and the principal and teachers should be brought up on charges. if it was my kid put in there i’d go up there and lock them in the room. and i agree- these teachers should not be teaching!!!!

That is a disgrace. What do they think these kids are animals?? Even animals shouldn’t be treated like that. If these teachers are not able to deal with these kids, then they shouldn’t be teaching there. Maybe these kids need to be in a special school where there are teachers that are educated in teaching them and know how to handle them.