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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]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.[/b] [/quote]

I do not get this at all. Where are the 24 other students supposed to go? Why do they lose their right to learn? How is the right of the one kid more important than the rights of the other 24?[/quote]

I think that it again needs repeating- these children are not mainstreamed with 24 other kids. These are kids that are already in special education programs that  have much smaller ratios.[/quote]

All of them? Because maybe I am mistaken, but that's not the impression I got from the story. Also, so what about the rights of the other 9 kids in the sped classroom?
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