hi i am parent of child in time out room. the complaints i files were re: time out room and that the school leaves my child in urine and feces. all over the states this is happening and the purpose of these kids going to school is left unknown. my son is not currently in school based on the abuse that is happening, you know what hernando county has not initiated truancy and my son has been our 3 months, id like to discuss how we can stand up and fight the cruel system these kids are subjected too.
Just to clarify your position, is this what you are saying -
Your son is in a school that uses a time out room, and he is being left there in his own urine and faeces, and you are concerned and made a complaint. You have now taken him out of school for three months because of this abuse.
Is that right?
How old is your son, and is he verbal?
We often see news articles about the abusive use of time out rooms, which are really sometimes just a locked closet.
Do you know any other parents in your county in the same position that would join with you to make a group complaint?
i am the parent that was in the newspapers already. the dept. of ed found the time out room was not abuse but found there was evidence of his health plan not being followed. i am saying he sits in urine and feces. the school is currently going to "fix this" after admitting they never toileted him the 7 years he was there.
there are many parents in this county that are sick of our kids being locked in these rooms and restrained and left to sit in their own wastes.
i have read horror stories from state to state of what is happening in these schools and its terrible. i think parents and community's need to focus a bit more on whats going on here, if thewse kids were regular ed kids misbehaving and being locked in little rooms, the media would be all over it and it would be called abuse.
I totally agree. My son has been locked in rooms too, and 99% of the time complaints get ignored.
It is shocking the amount of abuse stories we read, and that members here have experienced.
We try to draw attention to abuse of this kind whenever we can.
Never a week goes by without us hearing of some new case, and often worse - far, far worse.
what the news failed to mentioned was my childs medical issues , he has heart condition, seizures and they allowwed my son to bang his head on the concrete wall in the locked time out room for 28 minutes. they restrain these kids every day without regard to what doctors say or order and parents are forced to sit back and watch as this abuse and neglect linger on..
when you file complaints they get you nowhere except perhaps more aggravation and retaliation against the child. the time out room in my sons classroom was shut down but not the remaining 7 in the school, it makes no sense. d.o.e. will never rule against a school, they can not afford too but confidentially they will tell the parent to fight, fight to who?
after years and years of abuse and not being educated the parents are left cleaning up the schools' mess and errors.
Sadly, school staff usually expect children to be toilet-trained by the time they start in first grade. It isn't realised that a child might be too shy to ask to go to the toilet (expecially if they are already in trouble with the teacher) or don't like the school toilets if they are dirty and smelly.
In the book "The Strange Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time", the young autistic boy could not use the school toilet because another boy had made a big mess there. He also had a horror of the colours brown and yellow.