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LI mom speaks out about jail-like ‘time-out room’ her special-needs son’s school would use on him

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 ...
NBC New York

‘Mommy, why?' Parents speak out after special-needs son put in ‘time-out room' at Long Island school

It was drawn in pencil and crayon on an 8 x 11” paper. Her 10-year-old son Cooper told her it was a drawing of his school. But Nicole Miller was puzzled when she saw that he had drawn bars over the ...
Arizona Daily Star

Sequestering kids in time-out rooms can harm, critics say

DES MOINES, Iowa — After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room — a converted storage area under a staircase — where she was left ...
Sioux City Journal

Experts question benefit of school time-out rooms

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room -- a converted storage area under a staircase -- where she was ...