Follow Up: Illinois Schools End Use Of Isolation Rooms – IOTW Report

Follow Up: Illinois Schools End Use Of Isolation Rooms

The day after the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois published an expose on the state wide use of seclusion rooms, the practice was halted by the state of Illinois.

Many of the isolated timeout incident reports we read — some 50,000 pages — included what happened to children in seclusion, often in their own words as school employees kept moment-by-moment logs. The children, most of them with disabilities, begged to be let out, cried for their parents, expressed despair. We included their quotes throughout our story. We thought it was crucial that their voices be heard.

And then, the day after the investigation published, Illinois officials announced an immediate ban on secluding students alone, in locked rooms. Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the practice “appalling” and said: “Isolated seclusion will end now; it traumatizes children, does lasting damage to the most vulnerable and violates the most deeply held values of my administration and the State of Illinois.”

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6 Comments on Follow Up: Illinois Schools End Use Of Isolation Rooms

  1. The Left press always leaves out the story of
    why and how the students landed in seclusion.
    What other children were terrorized by these
    “innocents”, who else were their victims?

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  2. Public schools are a sick joke. Teachers unions are ultra corrupt sinkholes. We should get rid of them entirely.

    Vouchers per student for K-12 would solve the problems entirely. Parents and students could pick the school of choice and poor schools would fail. Unions would lose all of their power overnight. Kids would actually get an education instead of go to prison and be indoctrinated.

    School staff who did this should be criminally charged. A parent certainly would be. This includes the ‘superintendant’, or head zookeeper.

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  3. Okay no more isolation rooms.

    And now the schools need to be able to expel students who will not or cannot behave properly. (Caveat that behaving properly needs to be re-defined to exclude PC crap, because it sure seems like a whole lot of kids do get suspended or expelled for things that have nothing to do with their actual behavior, but their political positions.)

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  4. Meanwhile there’s no problem with unannounced active shooter drills, crying wolf at random times. Kids will always think it’s a drill, even if the real thing happens. They are encouraged to find isolated and secluded places to hide; play defenseless and shudder in fear until it’s over.

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