SCREAM ROOMS?

One of the benefits of human intelligence is the ability to learn from previous experience, one's own or that of another. If a problem has been solved, techniques successfully developed and applied, one need merely learn what has worked before and apply it oneself. 

I can speak from my personal experience of the last half of the 20^th century that in the United States of America:  we have known how to raise and educate children. We have known how to teach, train and discipline them for all those decades—without the necessity of locking them in a so-called scream room.

Here is my question: whose hair-brained idea was this? Scream rooms are used in mental institutions for sick people who may be a danger to themselves or others. Similar isolation and restraint are employed in prisons and jails for criminals or those accused of crimes. But where on earth does one get the idea to employ scream rooms in public school class rooms in the second decade of the 21^st century?  This is a practice that should be banned immediately.

If the person in charge of that classroom is unable to manage the classroom and the students without the use of a scream room, I submit the “fault” does not lie with the student. Teachers have been teaching and successfully disciplining children using the teacher's own intellect, skills, and professional education and training.  

On closer investigation it appears that this “procedure” is actually being applied to elementary aged children! A news broadcast featured a parent outraged by this practice, and a school board defending the practice of restraining children in scream rooms.

The featured parent wisely withdrew her child from the offending school and placed him in another school.  The commentator submitted the question to the viewers. It is, after, all the age of “decide every issue by popular vote and comment of the cyber audience.”

While teachers should absolutely be supported as the authority in the classroom that support does not extend to the use of barbaric inhumane and emotionally destructive “methods” of discipline such as scream rooms.

Parents are the ultimately responsible for the care, education and protection of their children. Kudos to that mother.