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A Long Island mom is speaking out after learning the so-called “time-out room” her special-needs son would be taken to during school more closely resembled a jail cell, saying the realization left her feeling “betrayed by the system.”
Trump orders release of long-secret final files on JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations — here's when you can expect to see it “They told me, you know, he’s very behavioral. Like he will rip up his papers or they were concerned about him being a danger to himself or to other kids,” she said. “They said he has to stay in the room until he regulates and calms down. I didn’t know any better at the time. I listened to what they said.”
Miller, who has since moved Cooper to a school that does not use time-out rooms, says she believes the excessive seclusion made her son’s behavioral issues worse. Michael Wilson, the director of the Education Discipline and Justice Group, agreed, saying, “Seclusion essentially exacerbates the issues that bring kids to the point where someone is trying to seclude them and then it further causes anxieties and traumatic response.”According to records obtained by NBC New York, Commack School District used time-out rooms 199 times over the course of eight months.
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