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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t they need to have parents permission to do this? On our registration forms (public school) there is some sort of paragraph about this. I always check “no” (as in- no you are not allowed to put my kid in that room). My kids do not have any special needs and it has never come up, anyway. I have also never heard of them putting a kid in there (not that I necessarily would). I’m not even sure our school has such a room at all? Have had three kids at the school and know the layout etc very well and have volunteered a lot over the years. [/quote]

NO. They do not need parents permission to do this. Parents have even sent signed letters saying that they do not want their child to be subject to seclusion/restraint and it is ignored. 
Also seclusion and restraint aren't just applied to kids in special educaton. The school can do this to any kid that they think is having a behavior they don't like.

Are you seriously trying to say this doesn't exist because you haven't seen it? Do you even know anything about the self contained classes at your children's schools?

I volunteered at my kids schools and never saw the rooms or the self contained classrooms, but they were there. One hs in Loudoun kept one child completely secluded in a basement room for the years that child attended the school. The child did very well at their middle school but the principal at the high school wanted nothing to do with any kid with an iep. The windows in the room they kept the child were covered. The child was never allowed to interact with other kids and they assigned thug like male teachers who were inadequately trained to work with the student. It was like a prison and none of those teachers treated the student with even the slightest bit of respect. They treated this kid like an animal and that caused behaviors in the child. We had case managers at that school who didn't even know basic info about disabilities and assumed all kids with ieps were behavior problems and not to be trusted. [/quote]

FWIW (I am the pp above who asked about parent permission). I looked this up on our district website and it is made very clear “seclusion and restraint” are only allowed with prior written parental permission. Hence the paragraph on the registration forms which I put “no”. So this does not happen in our school unless the parents have ok’d it. I live in Arizona though. [/quote]

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