Recently, the Prescott Unified School District in Arizona announced that it planned to dismantle a padded isolation room at one of its elementary schools that was used to isolate students with disabilities as punishment. This was a six-foot by six-foot room in a public school!
Last month, when I conducted an on-site review of a private school as part of my legal consultation as an education expert with an attorney on a school shooting matter, I came upon two isolation rooms that were padded with black padding and lit by a 40-watt florescent bulb. The principal told me that these are used as “incentives for the kids to follow the rules.” Read more…
