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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, parents advocated for their kids to be in inclusive mainstream schools and classes. Cake, meet eating it too.

[b]What’s the alternative?  Leave them in the classroom when having a meltdown where they could harm another student?  Placing them in the hall won’t work, either. Trying to transport them to the office could cause big injuries because teachers cannot touch them. Honestly, while horrific sounding, these rooms seem like the best option. 
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My SIL has had her fingers and wrist broken on 3 separate occasions by out of control kids. Not many people outside of athletes can say that’s happened to them at work.  There are absolutely kids who spend hours in these rooms because there is no other alternative according to her. Even the behavioral specialists cannot deescalate some kids. [/quote]

Wrong. Kids being put in seclusion closets are already in self contained special ed classrooms (or schools). They have much smaller classes and the adult:kid ratio should be in the range of 1:4. They should have detailed behavioral plans being documented and followed that prevent most of these meltdowns from happening, and support from psychologists and behavior specialists. When a meltdown happens, the other students in the room should be moved out to another learning space (a pod in the hallway with books, for instance) and the child allowed to calm down without being touched or moved and then process with a teacher. [/quote]

It takes on average 3-4 hours for my kid to Re-regulate himself.  Sometimes more, sometimes less.  Are you advocating that they rest of his class be moved to a pod with books and lose their learning opportunity while my kid is contained within the classroom for those hours?[/quote]

Is he wildly out of control for 3-4 hours or can he safely be persuaded to relocate himself to a sensory room or somewhere else in the building after a little while? If he is wildly out of control for so long, he probably needs a medication adjustment/change. [/quote]

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