{"id":32817,"date":"2012-11-30T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32817"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:47:57","slug":"alternet-isolation-rooms-in-elementary-schools-are-they-treatment-or-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/30\/alternet-isolation-rooms-in-elementary-schools-are-they-treatment-or-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternet: &#8220;Isolation Rooms&#8221; in Elementary Schools: Are They Treatment or Punishment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington state public elementary school is under fire over its use of a &#8220;isolation room&#8221;&#8211;a small padded box that, to many, appears similar to solitary confinement boxes used inside prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The school district has explained that the room is designed to be a calming space for children with severe behavioral disabilities, and that no student placed in the &#8220;isolation room&#8221; without written permission from his or her parents.<\/p>\n<p>However, a handful of parents and grandparents have told a local news station that their children were also placed in the &#8220;isolation room&#8221; without parental permission, sparking intense questions around whether the room is a method of intense therapeutic treatment for some of the school district&#8217;s most disabled students or whether it has also become a form of punishment for any child that is acting out in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-liberties\/isolation-rooms-elementary-schools-are-they-treatment-or-punishment?ak_proof=1&#038;akid=9737.47561.mo8VEd&#038;rd=1&#038;src=newsletter752671&#038;t=13\" title=\"Isolation Rooms in Elementary School\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington state public elementary school is under fire over its use of a &#8220;isolation room&#8221;&#8211;a small padded box that, to many, appears similar to solitary confinement boxes used inside prisons. The school district has explained that the room is designed to be a calming space for children with severe behavioral disabilities, and that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32818,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32817\/revisions\/32818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}