Joe Russo, Newton's Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education, told a local newspaper that the mainstreaming of students with special needs required seclusion rooms.
"We've seen a need for them as kids with more intense needs are mainstreamed into the classrooms," Russo told the Newton Tab.
Russo was seconded by Betty Ungar Lapide, a retired teacher from a town nearby Newton, who wrote to the newspaper saying she saw no other recourse other than an isolation room when a classroom teacher must handle a student with challenging behaviors in the classroom.
"When a child becomes disruptive," wrote Ms. Lapide, "he/she disrupts the learning for everyone. It's as simple as that. No one can learn when one child is having difficulties . . . In past generations, teachers would send disruptive students to the principal's office, students would be 'told' to behave, and sometimes their parents were notified. That was usually enough. Talking to a student sometimes helps, but it takes away valuable learning time when the teacher has to do it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lichtenstein/still-a-terrifying-way-to_2_b_4404637.html
h/t to Elizabeth Hudson for this!
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